Colony

Meeting Minutes¶

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4.25.2008

• Milk and Cookies
  • 5/2 - Eugene
• Monday Dinner
  • * Announcements
  • MoM
    • Poster
      • Presenters;
        • Brad, Evan
      • Video-demo
    • Presentation
      • Presenters:
        • Chris, Austin(?)
• Project Updates
  • Autonomous Recharging
    • Perhaps some robots need more hardware
    • Delay function for motors
    • Demo with ColoNet commands
      • Non-meaningful charge to start out with
  • Charging Station
    • Still working on wireless (no malloc) - CLOSE
  • Encoders
    • Working, just need to solder some wires
    • Five robots equipped with encoders
  • ColoNet + GUI
    • Working on computer vision algorithm
  • Object Tracking/ID
    • Surface color affecting identification ability
      • Tilt sensor up
    • Ambient-light-independent (untested)
  • Object Manipulation
    • Block-pushing demo once encoders work...maybe
    • Swarm demo this week
      • BFS comes later
  • SLAM
    • Wrote dead reckoning code (untested)
  • Analog
    • analog8() is new function (uses buffer)
    • analog_get8() is old function (reads immediately)
  • Wireless Library
    • No malloc
    • Passing token and sensor matrix in separate packets
    • Fixed permanent death problem
    • More testing, added stability
  • Fixed-point Library
    • Justin and James
• Discussion Items
• Monday
• Anything else?