MeetingMinutes20100409 - Colony - Robotics Club

Status Updates: 04/09/10¶

Weeks of 04/02/10 - 04/09/10

Meeting of the Minds
- 3 weeks
- Presentation type: Poster (laptop for videos)
SURG - Formation Control - Nico, Alex, James C., Joel, Echo
- Modularize formations
  - Get to a circle
    - Moving to FSM within FSM architecture for higher level control
  - Equal spacing on circle
  - Move circle
    - Echo working on driving straight with encoders
  - Unlink circle into a follow-the-leader, and relink back into a circle
    - Sometimes follow each other (robots get lost with 3+)
    - Token ring works great with 2
    - Could try using BOM 1.5s to not use token ring
- Compasses: who wants to take the lead on interfacing with robots?
  - Chris will start, looking for newer member also (Nico)
Library/Wireless Clean-up - David, Ben W, Abe
- wl_get_basic can now receive packets
- Next week finish testing receiving functions and start testing all of the sending functions. Also move to testing the ACK system.
Demo Folder - Evan
- can type make DemoName in the root demo directory to make and program the demo
- Demos list: Hunter-Prey, joystick, smart run around
  - check all of these before the Open House (next Friday)
  - Brad will work on integrating joystick with Hunter-Prey