Colony

Status Updates: 02/19/10¶

• SURG - Formation Control - Nico, Steve, Alex, Joel, Dev, Reva, Echo
  • Compasses on the way
  • Circles
    • Took out spacing code for now
    • Working on consistent radii now
      • Use middle robot to coordinate (single sensor)
      • Perimeter robots move in or out to compensate
• Library/Wireless Clean-up - David, Chris, James, Brad, Evan, Ben W, Abe
  • API mode 1 now works
    • Can get and set API mode, MY address, Channel, PAN.
  • Next week start testing actual send and receive between two robots
• Filter Design - Emily, Austin
  • Butterworth: -1 Policy
    • With a single -1, take old outputs and feed back in as inputs.
    • Keep a counter and detect when your whole history has been replaced by -1 corrections, and then return invalid reading
    • When a good number is received again, reinit the whole filter with that 1 value.
• Timer Manager - Austin, Brad
  • Tricky preemption stuff, need to discuss approach
• Rangefinders Fitting - Brad, Ben P, Megan
  • Ran tests with single robot, all rangefinders
    • Different conditions (eg motors running at different speeds, etc...)
    • Too much noise, probably no lookup table (filter will help?)
    • Need to compare to Megan's data from previous tests
• Rangefinders - Megan, Austin
  • IR 5 on Bot 4
  • IR 4 on Bot 5
• Analog - Evan
  • Merged into Trunk on Wed night
• Demo Folder
  • save everything (including libs) when we have a working demo
    • Hunter-Prey
    • Smart Run Around
    • Joystick
  • allows for other people to do demos
  • get the starter labs from new people (dances)
• SURG - 3/24
  • Ideas
    • Simulator
    • Plants - cooperative agriculture
    • Traffic simulation - robots as the cars
      • vehicular networks are the future