MeetingMinutes20110422¶

Scheduling¶

Calibration Station Schedule

• 4-10: Finish electronics if not done. Start Testing; fix what's broken
• 4-17: Integrate with software
• 4-24: Meeting of the minds prep - make a poster
• 5-01: Finals week soon, and meeting of the minds

Traffic Navigation Schedule

• 4-10: demo create graph, integrate all parts, intersections
• 4-17: search graph, transmit between robots
• 4-24: debugging, make poster
• 5-01: MotM

List of current tasks¶

Behaviors for Traffic Navigation

• Mapping
  • Dev, Prashant, Priya, James
• Not crashing at intersections
  • Alex L fixed this, but needs demo
• Barcodes: Automate the entire process
  • Needs entered into database
  • Alex Z, Grant, Dan

Graph Display

• 1. Send all data as a union of structs
• 2. Transmit data and convert to graphable format
  • Where does this conversion happen?
• 3. Process graph data and display

Physical Map

• Alex M, Priya

Calibration Station Software

• Store information in MySQL database
  • Evan will pull information out and display on another website
    • We'll then put that within a tab on the wiki
    • What I have so far http://128.237.232.185:8080/DiagStationWebApp
    • Works best in chrome
    • Repo: http://code.google.com/p/colony-diagnostic-station/
  • John wants to write in Java, but serial ports are difficult
    • Suggested cross-platform libraries for serial

Scout

• Met again on Wednesday
• Funding from companies
• Updates from Kevin

Batteries

• Alex Lam found out that a lot of batteries don't recharge well
• I talked to Robbie, who heard that conversation too
  • We can probably get a bunch of batteries with general roboclub money soon.

Progress on papers?

• Check out a paper George suggested! It's on the wiki.

URO Money

• Remember to steal use it