Embedded Motion Control 2012 Group 8

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Group 8

Tutor: Sjoerd van den Dries

Member E-mail
Alexandru DinuAlexandru Dinu
Thomas TheunisseThomas Theunisse
Alejandro MoralesAlejandro 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