Colony

2.8.2008

• Milk and Cookies
  • 2.15.2008 - Andrew
• Announcements
  • Next SURG: March 17
  • Pizza Mondays!
  • Parts ordered
  • Put your stuff back
• Project Updates
  • Autonomous Recharging
    • Charge Circuit code is working
    • Should be able to begin testing inductors + control law
    • XBee dongle works on OptimusPrime
      • Air/ColonyDesktop is bugged
    • Battery Level priorization
      • Focus on two+ robots seeking
        • Code done, not tested yet
    • Charge board first to die
      • Possible brownout detection
  • Charging Station
    • Worked on circuit design
      • BOM, XBee, Lights, FTDI->UART
      • Put it all together in schematic
      • Schematic done
      • Finishing up parts list
    • 164 ordered
    • Drivers needed
    • Layout next week
  • BOM 1.5
    • Next week
  • Encoders
    • SPI
      • Master-Slave works
      • Some bugs
    • Installing magnets on drive shafts
    • Need boards partially soldered
  • ColoNet + GUI
    • Robots moves when you click
    • XBEE ID
    • ColoNet source reorganized
    • Integrated vision code in the server
  • Object Tracking
    • Choose Color LEDs from obj manip brainstorm
    • Wrote java program to replace tera term and test color sensor
  • Obj Manip
    • Orbit code
• Discussion Items
  • End of Semester Deliverables
    • Power Management
      • 2x Charging Stations
      • Demo: 2 Charging Stations + 4-5 robots, extended run (1 hour), useful recharge
      • Demo: ColoNet battery level prioritization
    • Object Manipulation
      • Demo: 2 Robots pushing a block straight
      • Demo: 3 Robots object recognition and swarm object
  • Website Credits
  • Website Updating
  • Coding Style/Guidelines/Rules
    • Explicit Rules vs. Guiding Principles
    • Enforce Conformity vs. Ban Bad Practices
    • Procedure/Method for resolving conflicts
    • Deferred to next meeting
• Monday
  • Brainstorming on coop manipulation
• Next Monday
  • Brainstorm on SURG
• Anything else?