MeetingMinutes20120116¶

Progress over break¶

• Sim progress over break
  • Demo
• Goals for Sim
  • Terrained backgrounds
  • Sonar
  • BOM
  • Encoders
• Board progress over break
  • USB Host does not come up
  • Updating Eagle Scoutfly with new power board
  • New Motor driver?
• Goals for Boards
  • Diagnose what is wrong with USB
  • Put firmware on it
  • Power up board
  • Make sure all the devices on it work
  • Make remaining changes to Scoutfly
  • Get Kevin, Brian, and Tom to sign off on next scoutfly version
  • Send it to board house.
• New SURG - Automated Warehouse Storage and Retrieval System using a Low Cost Robot Colony
  • Goal: Demonstrate Scouts ability to model a warehouse distribution systen
• Goals for new SURG
  • Get a scout working
  • Behavior for one robot to drive and pick up plate and drive back
  • Planner to schedule & assign tasks to robots
  • Forklift designed and built

Split up & assign tasks¶

Assign group leaders for subgroups.

• Group leaders are responsible for tasks getting done.
• Present progress on task at meetings
• Update their section of agenda
• Can delegate to subgroup members, but are responsible if not completed

Tasks¶

Subgroups

• Warehouse Behavior - Priya
  • Jeff, Prasanth, Lamda, Leon, Lalitha, Jon, James, Priya
• Mechanical - John
  • John, Timothy, Kyle
• Forklift - Julian
  • John, Timothy, Misty, Kyle, Tom, Julian
• Simulator (and ROS) - Alex
  • Alex, Priya, Leon
• Board - Abe
  • Abe, Ben, Tom, Julian, Misty
• Low-level Software - Ben
  • Julian, Abe, Lamda, Prasanth, Tom, Jeff, Dev, Ben

Members & Organization¶

• How to manage new goals
  • Gantt chart did not work. Why?
• Taking attendance at meetings.
• People should edit agenda by day before status meeting & present at status meeting
  • If not updated, they will get lots of call from me/subgroup leader
• New member feedback
  • Feedback during intro labs with technical problems
  • Better work meetings
  • Friendly to people with new members
• Efforts to recruiting new members
  • Activities fair and Roboclub GB meeting
  • If not a lot of people, assign to projects

Other Stuff¶

• SURG Open House
  • Jan 25th.
• Paper. Need 5-6 people to write paper over summer for journal/conference
  • Most knowledgeable & active people
  • Most likely to be subgroup leaders, but not necessarily
• New Meeting time
• Cookie Sched.

Attended by: Priya, Timothy, Julian, Kyle, Misty, Leon, Abe, Lamda, Prasanth, Willis, Dev, James, John, Ben, Jeff, Lalitha, Tom, Jon
Emails from:
Late: Dan