Colony

Status Updates: 12/04/09¶

Weeks of 11/21/09 - 12/04/09

• ADC Prescalar Testing - James, Evan
  • Use 2^0 prescalar
  • Develop API function to easily change prescalar
• SURG - Formation Control - Nico
  • Three formations: Circles, Secret Service, Dynamic Formations
  • Circles
    • Need more precision
    • Will incorporate with Joel's even-spacing algorithm
• Library/Wireless Clean-up - David, Chris, James, Brad, Evan, Ben, Abe
  • ready for compile/debug stage:
    • common functions (init, terminate, packet group registration)
    • core send function
    • ack system
  • in progress:
    • receive functions
    • xbee interrupt
  • questionable progress (nothing in repository):
    • integrating serial xbee functions into xbee.c
    • send wrappers
• Filter Design - Emily
  • Determine desired cut-off frequency
• Fixed Point Math Library - Justin
• Colony Scheduler - Justin
  • Allows for periodic, interruptible code
  • Need to free up timers
  • Watch stack space
• Rangefinders
  • Determine offsets to use for each robot - Dan, Megan
    • Make tool to calculate offset of new IR sensors
      • Start with a clear procedure
      • Documentation on how to perform test is forthcoming
  • Test newly installed rangefinders - Megan, Dan
    • IR5 on Bot4 doesn't work, all others work
    • Graphs coming soon...not
• Init Refactor - Brad
• Makefiles - Brad, David
  • removed the library .a files from the repo!
  • This means the .a files will be automatically compiled when they need to be
• Controls Library - Austin, Brad
  • Investigating the move library (velocity controls library)
  • Get slides from George for presentation for Colony (or get George to do it?)
• Remove Analog Loop - James, Evan
  • Change analog_get8 to return a INT8_T instead of an INT (we only need 8 bits, not 16)
• status of memory usage - David
  • for unit tests, 2710 bytes of data+bss
  • this is much better than a few months ago
  • however, the new wireless library will increase this number
• Password Practices
  • make your Redmine and SVN password strong
• JTAG Debugger?
• Scout status update - next semester