Embedded Motion Control 2012 Group 9

Group Members :

Ryvo Octaviano      0787614    r.octaviano@student.tue.nl 
Weitian Kou         0786886    w.kou@student.tue.nl 
Dennis Klein        0756547    d.klein@student.tue.nl 
Harm Weerts         0748457    h.h.m.weerts@student.tue.nl 
Thomas Meerwaldt    0660393    t.t.meerwaldt@student.tue.nl 

Objective
The Jazz robot find his way out of a maze in the shortest amount of time

Requirement
The Jazz robot refrains from colliding with the walls in the maze
The Jazz robot detects arrow (pointers) to choose moving to the left or to the right

Planning

An intermediate review will be held on June 4th, during the corridor competition
The final contest will be held some day between June 25th and July 6

Progress :

Week 1 :
Make a group, find book & literature

Week 2 :
Installation :
1st laptop :
Ubuntu 10.04 (had an error in wireless connection : solved)
ROS Electric
Eclipse
Environmental setup

Learning :
C++ programming (http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial)
Chapter 11

Week 3 :
Installation :
SVN (Got the username & password on 8th May)

Learning :
ROS (http://www.ros.org/wiki/ROS/Tutorials)
Jazz Simulator (http://cstwiki.wtb.tue.nl/index.php?title=Jazz_Simulator)

To DO :
end of week 3
Finish setup for all computers
3 computers will use Ubuntu 11.10 and 1 computer uses Xubuntu 12.04

Week 4 :
We did a brainstorm session on what functions we should make in the software, the result is below.