MeetingMinutes20110225¶

Happy birthday Dev!

Current SURG

Diagnostic station
- New members
- Where are we on our old timeline?
  - Try to get lead screw done, order the motor this week.
- Need to buy a motor
- Using the atom - hook up our arduino
- Start getting software written (John and Evan)
Scout
- Call Dan Shope now AND after meeting
  - DAN SHOPPPPEEEE!!!!
- Ping kwoo about hardware
- Priya will bug people
- Scout meeting
- New Scout leadership?
- Autonomous charging
- Weekly meetings Wednesdays 2200-2230
  - Abe, Ben, Jeff, Alex, Other Alex, Prashant, Priya, Dev
Line-following
- Can we get the MUX to sit flat?
  - 90-degree connector
  - Shorter Wires
  - lower angle attaching to MUX
  - solder wires directly to MUX
- Finish mounting sensors
  - We have a bunch of wires made, have all the parts, and holes drilled in many robots. (Thanks Alex L.)
  - 4 definitely work
  - Ben needs to make more mounts
  - Drill more holes and mount parts.
  - Hopefully all will be done by the end of the weekend
- Time to start higher-level behaviors
  - We will have new sensors on multiple robots soon, and they are getting good readings.
  - Volunteers to work on behaviors?
Behaviors
- Mapping
  - Compilation issues

New wireless
- Ben is testing a new library with easier send/receive functions.

Our library doesn't compile from scratch?

Fixed
Alex Z broke it
Dan Fixed it
Joseph wrote a perl script to copy the line(following/drive) files into traffic navigation
Excessive main functions ifdef'ed out. Should work fine now.

Behaviors for Traffic Navigation

Mapping
- Prashant, Dev, James
Not crashing at intersections
- Alex L, Ben (rewrite queue), Priya, Willis
Barcodes: Automate the entire process
- Alex Z, Grant, (Dan)

Calibration Station Software

New Apache

Next SURG

March 23
- Keep thinking of new ideas
  - Mapping cities with closed-loop algorithms
  - Colony Data structures
    - Visual data structures
  - Probabilistic modeling with mapping
  - Scout
  - AI/Machine Learning
  - Cooperative Cleaning (WALL-E)
  - Emergent Behaviors
  - Robots that can handle terrain

LAN Party Today

8PM
They'll provide games if you need them
THERE WILL BE MINECRAFT