Status Updates: 02/19/10¶
Weeks of 02/12/10 - 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- Keep a counter and detect when your whole history has been replaced by -1 corrections, and then return invalid reading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
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