Colony

Status Updates: 03/26/10¶

• SURG Proposal
  • Done!

• Meeting of the Minds
  • 5 weeks
  • Presentation type: ppt vs poster
• SURG - Formation Control - Nico, Steve, Alex, Joel, Echo
  • Modularize formations
    • Get to a circle
    • Equal spacing on circle
    • Move circle
    • Unlink circle into a follow-the-leader, and relink back into a circle
  • Executive decision on middle robot spacing - don't use it for now
  • Compasses: who wants to take the lead on interfacing with robots?
    • Chris will start, looking for new member also
• Library/Wireless Clean-up - David, Chris, Evan, Ben W, Abe
  • debugging send and receive
    • first wl_get_basic works, but after that the buffer says it's full
    • probably some pointer position error
• Diagnostic Station - Austin
  • Needed for collecting rangefinder data for analysis
• Rangefinders - Chris
  • Bot 1
  • IR 5 on Bot 4
  • IR 4 on Bot 5
• Demo Folder - Evan
  • can now run 'make demo' from within the trunk if you have subversion installed
    • windows users can get it here: http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=8100
  • TODO: change folder names
    • behavior -> source
    • combine lib and projects -> lib
  • TODO: add a page to redmine wiki with instructions for adding and running demos

• Filter Design - Emily, Austin
• Timer Manager - Austin, Brad
• Rangefinders Fitting - Brad, Ben P, Megan