Team Minutes
9/1/17
Goals:
- Fill out team contract
- Figure out github
Notes:
9/8/17
Goals:
- Work toward completing milestone 1
- Create state machine to implement turns
- Find best sensor orientation
- Start mechanical design
Notes:
9/11/17
Goals:
- Discuss Milestone 1
- State machine model
- Ideas?
- Mechanical Design
- Looking ahead
- Lab 2 Prelab
Notes:
- Milestone 1 due week 5 - next Wednesday
- Step 1: look at hard right turn. Make sure robot is not travelling
- Step 2: look at physical positioning of sensors
- Dedicate at least 1 open lab session this week
- Tuesday - Leandro and Tejas and Jen, 1-2:30
- Friday - 1:30 - 4:30
Maria, Josh, Jen, Dean, Leandro
- Mechanical Design
- Might get update from Jen next Monday meeting
- Looking Ahead
- Everyone read through schedule/requirements, bring thoughts/ideas for top down planning meeting next Monday
9/15/17
Goals:
- Milestone 1
- Lab 2
Notes:
- Milestone 1
- Tejas will document
- Has to go up by Wed
- Reorganize Github
- Leandro will make a navigation bar
- Lab 2
- Due friday
- Microphone team - build and test circuit - Josh and Maria will go in at 3:30 today
- Dean Leandro will go in today at 3:30 to work on treasure sensor
9/18/17
Goals:
Notes:
- Lab 2 and Milestone 1 due Wednesday!!
- Microphone Team
- Monday evening/Tuesday
- Optical Team
- Tuesday
- Have most things done by lab time so we can work on milestone 2
- Next meeting: explain milestone 1/different parts of lab 2
- MILESTONE 2 DUE NEXT WEEK
- Mechanical
- Different design options, omni wheels are the fav but everything needs more research
9/29/17
Goals:
- Discuss Lab 3
- Team Assessment form
Notes:
- Team Assessment
- Due by tomorrow 8am
- Lab 3
- Acoustic: Dean, Jenn, Josh
- VGA: Tejas, Leo, Maria
- Mechanical
- In process
10/16/17
Goals:
- Discuss Lab 3
Notes:
- Lab 3
- Due tomorrrow
- Lab 4 due next week
- Wireless communication
- Mechanical
- keep the servo, have the servos on top
10/20/17
Goals:
- Discuss Lab 4
- Discuss future deadlines
- Discuss future goals for overall project?
Notes:
- Lab 4 VGA team needs to work on packet receiving not neccessarily wirelessly
- Need to determine final maze scheme and graphics (right now just solid colored square grid)
- Packets will consist of 1 byte (3 bits for x coordinate, 2 bits for the y coordinate, 3 for state)
- Wireless communication needs line of sight
- Brainstorm maze pictures for next meeting
- Ask TAs about pictures on FPGA
- Come up with team logo for wheels and engrave names in chassis
- Ask about laser
- Create merch
- Find out how ordering things work
Action Items:
- Ask TAs questions above!!
10/27/17
Goals:
- Discuss Lab 4 (again)
- Discuss milestone 3
- Discuss future goals for overall project?
Notes:
- Lab 4 VGA team needs to work on packet receiving not neccessarily wirelessly
- Need to determine final maze scheme and graphics (right now just solid colored square grid)
- Packets will consist of 1 byte (3 bits for x coordinate, 2 bits for the y coordinate, 3 for state)
- Wireless communication needs line of sight
- Brainstorm maze pictures for next meeting
- Ask TAs about pictures on FPGA
- Come up with team logo for wheels and engrave names in chassis
- Ask about laser
- Create merch
- Find out how ordering things work
Action Items:
- Ask TAs questions above!!
10/30/17
Goals:
- Discuss updates on Lab 4 FPGA Team
- Discuss milestone 3
Notes:
- Lab 4 FPGA - Minor problems remaining
- TAs don’t know the answer
- Team FPGA will go on 31st Oct, 2017 and solve their FPGA bugs
- DFS vs BFS
- Library for queues and stacks on Arduino or implement our own?
- Library exists for both
- Milestone 3 Deadline Nov 8
- Milestone 4 Deadline Nov 21
Action Items:
- Phototransistor alternatives research from Lab 2
- Start working on Milestone 3 - individual research.
- Ask Kirstin
- Merge code
11/3/17
Goals:
- Discuss updates on Lab 4 FPGA Team
- Discuss milestone 3 and milestone 4
Notes:
- Lab 4 FPGA - Almost complete
- Need to improve turning
- MATLAB Simulation and Arduino code underway
- Milestone 3 Deadline Nov 8
- Milestone 4 Deadline Nov 21
Action Items:
- Start working on the final version of the robot - wiring, calibration, improve turning etc.
- Finish MATLAB Simulation code and Arduino code by Tuesday, Nov 7
- Merge code
11/12/17
Goals:
- Discuss Milestone 4
- Team Assessment form
Notes:
- Team Assessment
- Due by tomorrow 8am
- Do it
- Milestone 4
- Check line following sensors: Maria
- Check treasure detection sensors: Dean
- Arduino algorithm for mapping the maze: Tejas and Leandro
- FPGA and Communication: Jennifer and Joshua
- Mechanical design in process