Embedded Motion Control 2013 Group 1/Meeting 20130911

Meeting 2013-09-11 (12:30 - 13:00)

1. Generic Software architecture accepted.

1. Wiki contents should be decisions and the arguments for those decisions.

1. Highest priority is the Laserscan Stack consisting of the following nodes:
   1. Read Laserdata and convert to line segements, in the Robot Frame;
2. Transform the line segment to state description.

1. Monday 16th of September the group will come together for Hackaton_1 between the 3rd and the 8th hour of the TU/e lecture scedule.

1. Answers to questions:
   1. The Corridor challenge consists of a robot placed between two wall until an exit presents itself to one of the sides.
   2. Important is to show the robot can navigate without colliding with the walls and that the robot is able to make corners.
   3. The arrows in the final challenge are standardized. Images are(/will be) available on the wiki. The arrows appear in two forms, pointing left or right.
   4. No low level control loops are needed. The robot is controlled using cmd_vel containing x,y, theta velocity vectors.

Todo's before next meeting on Wednesday 2013-09-18

What	Who	When
Reserve location for Hackaton_1	Wouter + Paul	2013-09-12
Finish installation of Ubuntu, ROS, Gazebo and run the example.	Everyone	2013-09-16
Send the terminator config file to everyone	Paul	2013-09-12