Embedded Motion Control 2012 Group 8

Group 8

Tutor: Sjoerd van den Dries

Member	E-mail
Alexandru Dinu	Alexandru Dinu
Thomas Theunisse	Thomas Theunisse
Alejandro Morales	Alejandro Morales
Ambardeep Das	Ambardeep Das

Progress

• Week 1
  • Installed Ubuntu + ROS + Eclipse
  • Working on the tutorials...
• Week 2
  • Finished with the tutorials
  • Try to find a solution for rviz crashing on one of the computers
  • Have the first meeting with the tutor
  • Discuss the possible strategies for resolving the maze
  • Make a list of the names and structures of relevant topics that can be received from the simulated robot
  • Try to practice a bit with subscribing to certain topics from the simulated robot and publish messages to make him navigate around the maze
  • Progress
    • resolved the issue with rviz
    • did testing on the robot and we are now able to make him move, take turns, measure the distance in front of him and take decisions based on that
    • made a node that subscribes to the scan topic and publish on /cmd_vel topic
    • starting testing code to include the odometry information in our strategy
    • started thinking about the image recognition of the arrows
    • connected to the svn server and successfully shared code

• Week 2
  • Have second meeting with tutor on Wednesday (clear some questions about the maze and corridor contest)
  • Redo the code based on last discussion (we came up with a new strategy for taking corners)
  • Restructure the software's framework for ease of future improvements
  • Try to use the messages from the camera with our arrow guiding system