Meeting Notes 11/2/12

Advisor(s): None

Members: Alex, Sondra, Darryl, Greg, Stuart, Jeremy, Santi,

Excused: Kyle (graduate conference)

Action Items

Send out email about meeting to all people on the contacts list. I still need to figure out what to do about the sophomores who will never be able to make it. Any ideas?
Darryl, Greg and the top-level team need to start making more progress. If they can come up with a detailed pseudo-code, that would be great. Darryl should see if Ivan can help. His contact info is on the Google Docs spreadsheet.
You, Stuart, and Santi should try to get OpenCV installed. Try to do it with Stuart and Santi present.
Alex should try to troubleshoot the PWM. notes from the Dr. Clark meeting are on Dropbox and might be of use. Suggestions: switching the power supply, hooking Arduino up to oscilloscope and measuring output at different duties.
Try to get people to finish up the sponsorship flyer. I’ll look at it to. If you look at it and think it’s done, get Darryl to send it out.

Dr. Clark talked to Alex about the motor drivers
- Showed him concept generation
Darryl’s sending the stuffs
Need to get ROS installed on everyone’s computer.
- Load up the file on the virtual box.
Development
- We will all be writing code.
- We will need to able to test it on the main machine.
Version control software to standardize downloading code onto the machine.
- Need to know how we’re going to put the code onto the sub
  - It would be easier to put the motor control onto
Inter-module I/O would be complicated to make
- Darryl (Working on algorithm this weekend)
- OpenCV:
  - Should be able to see [D, phi, theta] and send to Top Level
  - Need reference images to determine distance and such.
  - Top Level will tell OPEN CV what to find, Top level will design properly -Line Following:
  - shouldn’t be too bad.
  - use basic mechatronic line following
    - if loses line, stop rotate and search (??)
Talk to Kyle about putting PID into computer
Taking group picture Monday at 1pm at the E-School

Questions