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
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
- waiting on Dan to continue main development
- Focusing on Forklift work for now
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.
- 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.
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)
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
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