Colony

2.1.2008

• Milk and Cookies
  • 2.1.2008 - Eugene
  • 2.8.2008 - Greg
  • 2.15.2008 - Andrew
• Announcements
  • Next SURG: March 17
  • Pizza Mondays!
• Project Updates
  • Autonomous Recharging
    • Charge Circuit code is working
    • Should be able to begin testing inductors + control law
    • XBee dongle works on OptimusPrime
      • Air/ColonyDesktop is bugged
    • Battery Level priorization
      • Focus on two+ robots seeking
        • Charging robots continue until done
  • I2C
    • Fixed in fast charging branch
    • Problem with trunk version and robots
  • Charging Station
    • Austin taught lots of people about the design
    • Order some Atmega164's
    • Drivers needed
    • Hardware
      • Parts picked out
  • New BOM Driver
    • Works
    • Need get_max_bom_wrapper, bom_on, bom_off
  • BOM 1.5
    • Serial shift works
    • Driver?
  • Encoders
    • Need boards partially soldered
    • SPI Module?
      • Master to Slave works
      • Vice versa doesn't
  • ColoNet + GUI
    • Fixed a bunch of stuff
  • SLAM
    • Outlined architecture
  • Object Tracking
    1. Color LED
    • Research: 3 separate LEDs + phototransistor
      • Advantages other designs
        1. RFID
    • 40 Parallax transmitter
    • Spin around method + signal strength modulation
      1. High Intensity Light
    • Need to buy higher intensity leds to test with
• Discussion Items
  • Coding Style/Guidelines/Rules
    • Explicit Rules vs. Guiding Principles
    • Enforce Conformity vs. Ban Bad Practices
    • Procedure/Method for resolving conflicts
    • Deferred to next meeting
• Monday
  • Brainstorming on coop manipulation
• Trac
  • Investigate security for potential wiki transfer
• Anything else?