Meeting Notes 11/5/12

Meeting Type: Advisor Meeting

Attending:

Advisor(s): Dr. Frank, Dr. Harvey

Members: Sondra, Kyle, Darryl, Alex, Santi

Excused: Stuart, Greg

Action Items

1. Arrange location for testing setup
2. Interim design presentation (include all design changes)

Meeting Topics

• Progress report
• Reiterated need to arrange testing

Important Notes

• There wasn’t a lot to report
  • It would probably be best if we had more ready for next time

Transcript (Notes)

• Current progress
  • We got the IMU, but it doesn’t work very well from the Arduinos
  • We want the IMU on the Arduino to parallelize the balance functions
  • We aren’t to use the IMU that we have rather than finagling the software to run it simultaneously with the vision software
  • The group believes that the Arduino communication is one-way, but I thought it would be two-way
  • Mention the change in our components
• Mechanical Progress
  • Issues acquiring parts
  • Wanted to build a prototype, but they messed up the parts so we’ve ordered a sheet and are going to cut it ourselves
• Electrical
  • No major changes, got batteries and got the computer
• Programming
  • Currently setting up Ubuntu environment
• Testing
  • Scale down the testing equipment to work in shallower environment
  • Talk to Morcom again about testing, need a few hours, large areas
  • Make an appointment for as soon as we know we’ll have a working model

Group Notes

Not available.