Meeting Notes 10-16-12

Meeting Type: Group Meeting

Attending:

Advisor(s): None

Members: All

Excused: Not scheduled, attendance not required

Action Items

1. Get together as group and lay out software design so we’re clear on team tasks
2. Get together with programming team soon
3. Plan course of action
4. Get “novice” programmers up to speed on what they need to know now
5. Sondra, Kyle, and Greg will present to IEEE on Wednesday to seek extra help

Meeting Topics

• Approve and set up programming teams
• Quick progress reports on what needs to get done
• Brainstorming ideas for designing stuff
• Recruiting underclassmen

Important Notes

• Set up programming teams, won’t have to do this on Friday
• Still having meeting on Friday
  • Sondra wants to show the team how to set up Mavenlink so we can have a more organized task list
• IEEE has us in their meeting in 10/17
  • Robotics club was also invited to attend to hear about their projects (and ours!)

Transcript (Notes)

• Set up programming teams
  • Santi and Stuart are on computer vision
  • Alex is on the Arduinos
    • They will be putting the controller on the Arduinos
    • Want to send/receive data from all thrusters and IMU on motor controller Arduino
      • Want to use Arduino MEGA for this purpose
  • Greg is on top-level controller
  • Sondra leads computer vision
  • Darryl leads top-level design
  • Kyle will probably lead Arduinos
    • They’ll work it out
• Email Ryan
  • How to charge batteries
  • IMU
• Brainstormed on programming team roles and design
  • Darryl’s team is probably responsible for communication between the boards
  • Makes sense to put motor controller on Arduinos, even though original plan might have put it on the computer
    • The controller can stabilize the sub even without having to wait for vision software or whatnot to finish
      • The computer can only run tasks sequentially, since we don’t know how to do parallel programming
      • Sequential tasks means that the on-computer modules will have to wait for the other modules to finish before they can run
      • This probably isn’t so great for sensor operation
  • Arduinos will have to read in data from all sensors and send it to the computer
    • We don’t anticipate being able to hard-wire a sensor directly to the computer

Group Notes

Not available.