5.2.2008
- Milk and Cookies
- Announcements
- Project Updates
- Autonomous Recharging
- Inductors are here, batteries explode (just one maybe)
- Brad converting crappy connectors to molex
- Now PI control law
- Demo w/ 3 robots
- Fake charge, no hands
- Include video in presentation, make sure it can be explained
- ColoNet control
- Integrated
- Try to get video capture
- Demo w/ 5 robots
- Worked for 20 minutes before people got tired
- Not recorded
- Inductors are here, batteries explode (just one maybe)
- Charging Station
- Hardware is done - kudos to Jimmy
- Wireless needs to be tested, token ring
- BOM 1.5
- Encoders
- Installed on 5 robots and wired, lots of rewiring
- Encoder code modified - Accumulator works
- Calibration function to determine minimum motor speed
- ColoNet + GUI
- Object Tracking
- Swarming w/ objection recognition works
- Need demo
- Object Manipulation
- Robot can run straight
- Now we need two robots, and a demo
- SLAM
- Autonomous Recharging
- Discussion Items
- MoM
- Print poster - talk to George
- Brad & Evan presenting poster - 10:30 for Lockheed, 11:45 for Sigma Xi
- Other people need to be around to help from 12-2:30 and 3-5pm
- Chris and Austin presenting powerpoint
- 2pm
- Anything else?
- Colony dinner after MoM
- Ultimate sometime