Embedded Motion Control 2013 Group 9

Group members

Name:	Student id:	Email:
Jeroen Lamers	0771264	j.w.lamers@student.tue.nl
Rens Samplonius	0785119	r.j.samplonius@student.tue.nl
Haico Ploegmakers	0775395	h.e.c.w.ploegmakers@student.tue.nl
Frank Evers	0789890	f.evers@student.tue.nl
Filipe Catarino	0821789	f.freire.catarino@student.tue.nl

Planning

Decide all necessary functions for Maze

Week:	Activities:	People:
Week 1	Install the Ubuntu Software / Ros / Gazebo / QT Edit Start the tutorials for Ros / C++ Setup VPN	Everbody
Week 2	Finish all tutorials Start brainstorming Getting feeling with the robot doing the Simulations Identify the Sensor characteristics	Everybody Everybody Everybody Everybody
Week 3	Create architecture for Nodes and Functions Writing specific functions for Corridor Competition Get experience with PICO, first experiment (18/9)	Frank & Filipe Rens & Jeroen & Haico Everybody
Week 4	Test the concept code on PICO (23/9) Finalize the code for Pico Competition Corridor Competition on (25/9)	Everybody Everybody Everybody
Week 5	Not yet planned
Week 6	Not yet planned
Week 7	Not yet planned

Progress

Week 1: September 2 - September 8

The first week mainly consisted of installing the Ubuntu OS with all the required ROS/Gazebo software. This did not went smoothly as there is no easy available Ubuntu installation for Mac (1 member) and missing one tiny step in the Tutorials could end up with a not working environment.

It was decided that everyone should do all the tutorials to know how everything works, and that we would work with the software provided by the course material (QT for c++ and fuerte Ros).

Week 2: September 9 - September 15

During the second week everyone finished the tutorials for ROS and c++.

Robot Sensors

Researching the given example with the simulation environment shows that the laser data is acquired by scanning in a 270 degree angle with increments of 0.25 degrees. This information is saved in a a vector and can be used to obtain distances for every angle at a certain time.