Meeting Notes 1/15/13

Advisor(s): Dr. Frank

Members: Darryl, Sondra, Stuart, Alex

Excused: All but one ME member

Action Items

OpenCV is making progress
The box is almost done
ME wants us to do our best to make it to competition
- Rules are released
- Dr. Frank would be excited to see us do even one or two tests
  - Aim to make progress from last year’s
  - Suggests we choose one or two tasks to set up in the pool and fully debug,
  - just do the designs for the others
- There are ten steps to this year’s competition
- Cornell was the only team to finish last year
Wants to see a photo of finished box by next meeting :)
Dr. Frank hopes to be able to make presentations this semester
- Let him know about our presentations as soon as we do

Questions

Asked about ways to handle the IMU tx/rx
- Want to try to connect IMU to other serial port
- There are several other ports to use for serial ports
  - Allocate other serial port pins to IMU
  - Write a loop to read IMU serial port to USB serial
  - Mega has multiple serial ports assigned to hardware pins
  - UNO will let you assign general purpose pins to software serial pins (a little slower)
Ideas for noise filtering on our images
- UAV team has the exact same problem
- Identify the straight lines along the boundaries
  - Find the intersections between the lines
  - Count the intersections as vertices
  - Talk to Robert Woodruff
- We’re free to share information with other teams
How to separate programming among multiple members
- Suggested version control
- Probably not a huge issue to use Dropbox for only 3 members
- Being familiar with version control would be good for future multi-person projects that program
  - Good experience

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