Initial Stages of the Robot Project:
Team Meeting 1 with Instructional Team (2/15)- Link to PDF File: Team Meeting 1
Out of Class Meeting 1 (2/12)- Link to PDF File: Meeting 1 (2/12): Meeting Agendas and Notes
Out of Class Meeting 2 (2/25)- Link to PDF File: Meeting 2 (2/25) Meeting Agendas and Notes
Team Meeting 2 with Instructional Team (2/29)- Link to PDF File: Team Meeting 2
Out of Class Meeting 3 (3/1)- Link to PDF File: Meeting 3 (3/1): Meeting Agendas and Notes
Open Lab Meeting #1: 03/02/23
Location: Hitchcock Hall
Room 208
Members Present: Alex, Kevin, Jackson
Agenda: Test the robot going up the ramp in order to complete the performance checkpoint #1
Allocation of Tasks:
Alex-code, testing
Kevin-code, testing
Jackson- code, testing
Decisions Made in This Meeting: The robot went up the ramp fine, but there were small consistency issues due to the initial placement of the robot. The team decided that it would make a template for the robot to eliminate any error between the placement of the robot
In Class Meeting #1: 03/03/23
Location: Hitchcock Hall
Room 208
Members Present: Alex, Philip, Kevin, Jackson
Agenda: Test the robot couple more times going up the ramp and maximizing effort to place the robot in the best position as possible to avoid consistency issues.
Allocation of Tasks: In this meeting, everyone participated in testing the robot.
Decisions Made in This Meeting: The robot was 100% ready for the performance checkpoint #1
Open Lab Meeting #2: 03/07/23
Location: Hitchcock Hall
Room 208
Members Present: Alex, Kevin, Jackson
Agenda: Test the robot going up the ramp consistently and orient it in the same way to ensure the correct distances the robot needed to travel to get to the light.
Allocation of Tasks:
Alex- code, testing, measuring distances on the course
Kevin- code, testing, measuring distances on the course
Jackson- testing, measuring distances on the course
Decisions Made in This Meeting: The team came to the conclusion that the robot needed to align itself with the wall to make sure the correct distance is found.
Open Lab Meeting #3: 03/09/23
Location: Hitchcock Hall
Room 208
Members Present: Alex and Kevin
Agenda: Make sure the robot successfully read the light and displayed the color of the light on the proteus.
Allocation of Tasks:
Alex- coding and testing
Kevin- testing
Decisions Made in This Meeting: From the testing, the team determined to find a more efficient way to read the light values as the initial method wasn’t consistent. Instead of using the randomizer method, the robot would move forward, move right, move forward, then move left, etc.
In Class Meeting #2: 03/10/23
Location: Hitchcock Hall
Room 208
Members Present: Alex, Philip, Kevin, Jackson
Agenda: Make sure the robot traveled the correct distance to hit the correct colored button on the kiosk. Do last-minute testing to find the right angle to rotate and the right distance to travel in order to perfectly hit the correct button on the kiosk.
Allocation of Tasks:
For this meeting, everyone worked with the code and tested the robot on the course
Decisions Made in This Meeting: After the team found the correct angle for the robot to rotate in order to hit the correct kiosk button, the team determined that the robot was ready for the performance checkpoint #2.
Open Lab Meeting #5: 03/24/23
Location: Hitchcock Hall
Room 208
Members Present: Alex, Philip, Kevin
Agenda: Attach the mechanism to the servo motor using some sort of adhesives. Once that’s done, make sure the robot successfully drove to the fuel station, moved the proper fuel lever down for 5 seconds and back up. See how to incorporate RPS with the robot to gain insight on how it would help the robot move in the correct orientation.
Allocation of Tasks:
Alex- attaching the mechanism, code, testing
Philip- attaching the mechanism, testing
Kevin- attaching the mechanism, testing
Decisions Made in This Meeting: The team decided that it had to be precise with the alignment of the robot to get the right RPS values for it to move the correct fuel lever.
Open Lab Meeting #6: 03/27/23
Location: Hitchcock Hall
Room 208
Members Present: Alex and Philip
Agenda: Find a way for the robot to successfully drive up the ramp and align itself to the passport station as well as flipping the passport stamp.
Allocation of Tasks: Both members tested the robot on the course and both made changes to code if there were issues
Decisions Made in This Meeting: The team decided to temporarily include RPS to align itself with the passport lever in order to give the team more time to work with the shaft encoding for the robot.
Open Lab Meeting #7: 03/29/23
Location: Hitchcock Hall
Room 208
Members Present: Alex, Kevin, Jackson
Agenda: Make sure the robot could successfully complete the passport flip and return the lever to its initial position.
Allocation of Tasks: All members worked with testing and coding
Decisions Made in This Meeting: The team decided that because of the consistency issues with bringing the passport lever back down, the team would have the robot move back, then move forward and bring the lever back down.
Open Lab Meeting #8: 03/30/23
Location: Hitchcock Hall
Room 208
Members Present: Alex, Philip, Kevin, Jackson
Agenda: Make sure the robot could consistently complete the passport stamp flip and return the passport lever to its initial position.
Allocation of Tasks: All members worked with testing the robot on the course.
Decisions Made in This Meeting: The team decided that the method determined before to bring the passport lever back down to its initial position was very efficient was done ready for the performance checkpoint #4.
Open Lab Meeting #9: 04/05/23
Location: Hitchcock Hall
Room 208
Members Present: Alex and Jackson
Agenda: Make the robot successfully drop off the luggage in the upper baggage claim.
Allocation of Tasks:
Alex- coding and testing
Jackson- testing and measuring the distances on the course
Decisions Made in This Meeting: The team decided that it was crucial to securing the luggage on the mechanism or else the luggage would fall off when going up the ramp.
Open Lab Meeting #10: 04/10/23
Location: Hitchcock Hall
Room 214
Members Present: Alex, Philip, Kevin, Jackson
Agenda: Integrate the code of the robot so that it could do all the tasks on the course.
Allocation of Tasks:
Alex- coding, testing
Philip-testing
Kevin-testing, checking over the code
Jackson- standing in line to test, testing
Decisions Made in This Meeting: The team came to a conclusion that RPS was not accurate on courses B and D and that the team would need to make a fail safe code for when the robot would be tested on courses B and D. When the robot gets tested on courses C and A, the team decided RPS was efficient enough for the robot to complete the tasks.
Open Lab Meeting #11: 04/12/23
Location: Hitchcock Hall
Room 214
Members Present: Alex, Philip, Kevin, Jackson
Agenda: Use the integrated code made to make sure the robot could do all the tasks on the course.
Allocation of Tasks: Everyone worked with testing, measuring, and looking over the code
Decisions Made in This Meeting: The team determined that if the robot missed the light, then the whole run after would get compromised. The team then decided that it would find the most optimized distance from the baggage claim to the light to avoid error and inconsistencies when reading the light.
Open Lab Meeting #12: 04/13/23
Location: Hitchcock Hall
Room 214
Members Present: Alex, Philip, Kevin, Jackson
Agenda: Do a final 2 runs to make sure the robot could do all the tasks on the course.
Allocation of Tasks: Everyone tested the robot on the last 2 runs
Decisions Made in This Meeting: On all the runs, the robot did all the tasks, thus, leading the team to the conclusion that the robot was ready for the performance test #1 the next day.