MeetingMinutes20120130¶

Subgroup Updates¶

Warehouse Behavior - Priya¶

• Porting over code from Linefollowing and Intersection Behavior
  • Using same map representation as last year
• Idea for Roads
• Using line sensors mounted on back (need Mech group to do this)
• Scheduler Ideas (being finalized today)

Goals in 1 month

• Robot Planner (Driving Robots)
  • linefollowing & intersecions & maps done
  • Start work on path planning
• Scheduler (Status Bot)
  • Write simple scheduler that is time/space efficient

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Mechanical - John¶

• Planning mold creation with Dan
  • Dan needs to finalize some of the third generation designs
  • Plan to travel to Dan's home to assist in mold creation, Dates to be set later
• need to set up new meeting time
• Received documentation from Dan, all members reviewing now
  • Kyle, I'll cc you if you would like to also review this documentation

Goals for future

• waiting on Dan to continue main development
• Focusing on Forklift work for now

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Forklift - Julian¶

• Divided into mechanical and electrical groups.
  • Electrical Team is Julian and Tom
  • Mechanical Team is John, Misty, and Kyle
• Specified specific tasks
  • Forklift must a first only be able to move objects at ground level but must be expandable.
  • Forklift will mount on the back of the scout.
  • Forklift should be able to lift at least the weight of a scout robot.

Goals for Next Month

• Mechanical
  • Design CAD Model
  • Specify motor
• Electrical
  • Determine smart accessory interface protocol
  • Determine motor driver requirements and relevant sensors.
  • Design board and send to fab house.

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Simulator (and ROS) - Alex¶

• Weekly Progress
  • Supported encoders in scoutsim
  • Set goals

• Current Goals
  • Scout Teleop Node (Leon)
  • Inter-Robot Communication (Matt)
  • Odometry Node (Priya)
  • Sonars in Scoutsim (Alex)

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Board - Abe¶

• Progress since last meeting
  • Established weekly meeting time (20:30 - 22:00 Wednesdays)
  • Assigned tasks to group members
  • Talked to Kevin about power board issues, made a little progress debugging
  • Started routing new power circuit on Scoutfly

• Goals for next meeting
  • Figure out what's wrong with power circuit, make appropriate changes
  • Make progress rerouting Scoutfly

• Issues
  • Batteries on Shelf top row

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Low-level Software - Ben¶

• Last Meeting
  • Meeting time: Wednesday 22:00
  • Discussed ROS structure
    • Behavior - Library - Hardware/Simulator
  • Distributed tasks for investigation

• Short term goals
  • Rework current ROS structure
  • Figure out how to use ROS-Serial
    • Decide if we are using or not
  • Figure out how to access GPIO on Gumstix
  • Figure out how to access GPIO on AVR
    • Write HW nodes
  • Figure out how wireless works on AVR

Other Updates¶

• Wiki pages for subgroup meeting minutes
• Emailed Matt Mason for Monies. =)
• Final subgroup meeting times
• New Room (maybe)
• Cookie Schedule
• Open House.
  • SUCCESS! Funded 500$.
• Colony Frisbee

Attended by: Abe, Alex, John, Priya, Ben, Prasanth, Misty, Leon,
Emails from: Julian, Lamda, Kyle
Late: Dan J