Colony

gmail:

• Austin - ibstupid
• Chris - chrislmar
• Nico - bobabot1
• Emily - ehart01
• Evan - tmac503
• Jimmy - jimmy.w.bourne
• Brad - bradneuman
• John - sexton.john.t
• Megan - megar626
• B-rad - bradleyyoo
• David - davids24

SURG_Fall_2009_Brainstorming

Focus on cooperative behaviors - Formation Control

• We don't have any cooperative behaviors
• Would make for lots of cool demos
• Budget ideas
  • Additional parts/sensors for robot upkeep (encoders, BOM 1.5)

• Title: Formation Control in a Low-Cost Robot Colony
• Abstract (Austin, Chris)
• Research Question And Significance (Nico, B-Rad)
  • applications and previous research
  • exploration
  • chemical spills
  • from previous research we found that formation control would be applicable to problems such as mapping, cooperative object manipulation
• Project Design and Feasibility
  • Robots (Emily)
    • reword (update) from previous SURGs
  • BOM (John)
    • have been developed; need to buy parts for more
  • Wireless (Emily)
    • explain
  • End Goal and Demonstration (Evan, Emily, Jimmy)
    • [Deliverables] (Evan)
      • Battle formation (keep N robots on the front line)
      • light writing
    • Static (Emily)
    • Dynamic formations (Emily)
      • moving formations
    • draw parallels to real life scenarios (Jimmy)
      • land mines
      • robot gardeners
      • vector resource
      • patrol
      • perturbation response
• Project Organization (Megan)
• Feedback and Evaluation (Megan)
• Dissemination of Knowledge (Megan)
• Budget (Brad)
  • BOM 1.5 parts x 8
  • RBOM?
  • IR filter