Colony Meeting Agenda - 8/31/2007
- Announcements
- General Body Meeting - Friday, September 7th, 4:30 Wean 7500
- URO Open House - Wednesday, September 5th, 4:30-6:00 Danforth Lounge
(Circle room in UC)
- We're going at 5:10
- Activities Fair - Same time as above
- Wiki Down - use email for now
- AAAI Fall Symposia
- November 9-11
- Rides
- Funding
- Hotel
- Summer Progress
- Brian
- Greg
- General Body Meeting
- Presentation
- Meeting afterwards
- Colony Goals
- SURG Proposal: Investigating Power Management in a Robot Colony
- See Abstract
- Other goals
- Personal goals
- SURG Proposal: Investigating Power Management in a Robot Colony
- Incoming freshman
- Rites of initiation
- Work Meetings
- Schedules
- Joke of the day
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Colony Meeting Minutes - 8/31/2007
- Pay dues
- New Wireless Code
- Actually a library
- Needs debugging
- 9600 baud rate
- Uses the XBee IDs
- Fixed order, lowest ID
- Join request / Acceptance
- "BOM On" packet
- Token ring
- code/wl_lib_devel/lib
- Library
- External libaries -> yay!
- Uses archive files
- Doesn't require compiles
- Jason can talk about makefiles
- Autonomous Recharging
- Will require rewrite for new library
- ColoNet
- Robot Graph
- Receives
- roboclub1.frc.ri.cmu.edu/botgraph
- Go try it, it's cool
- Black lines, they see each other
- Gray lines, they don't
- Not tested with server/client
- Goal brainstorming
- Recharging to work
- Real Task
- Grow plants
- Robust wireless library
- I2C documentation
- Charging Station as a Dragonfly / New PCB
- Xbee firmware update
- More homogenous robots
- Multiple charging bays with MCUs, no charging station
- Install Encoders
- Controls - Motors
- Code style guidelines
- Template files
- SVN Repository cleanup
- SVN Commit RSS feed
- AFS workspaces + SVN
- Cleanup ColoNet code
- SLAM
- ColoNet - task queuing
- Big Red / Green button : Stop / Go
- Wireless Programming
- RTS style control
- FPS style control
- Doxygen
- Code Review
- ColonyOS - TinyOS
- Paper
- Innovative things to do
- Freshman
- Build robots
- Program behaviors
- Let them do their own ideas
- One week duration
- Monday 7-9 - Discuss Code Architecture/Style/Organization
- Wednesday 5:30-7:30 pizza meeting - get a count on friday
Note:
- Old board is called the Firefly+
- New board is called the Dragonfly
- Eugene is bringing pizza
- Jason will present several weeks from now about makefiles