Team 15 - Enneapous

Meeting Minutes - Oct. 16, 2009

In attendance:

Dr. Magierowski, Nathan, Danielle, and Mike

Tasks:

• Danielle - Send in meeting minutes.
• Mike - Specify version of software in specs. Work on Magierowski’s suggestions for moving forward.
• Nathan - Work on Magierowski’s suggestions for moving forward.

Notes:

• What operating system are we going to be running the simulation on, can it run on more than Linux?
• Is the laser going to be too difficult? Nathan thinks that he can find a laser driver, you can give it directions and it run from there. Dr. Magierowski will be looking into this for us.
• The features and performace of the spec look good Dr. Magierowski will make any additional comments on the specs to make sure the customers needs are being met.
• The current spec is the most ambitious we will have a better understanding what is and isn’t possible in January.
• Something to be aware of is the difficulty with real time: when creating the local path planner the map merging with the old and new might be challenging.
• Dr. Magierowski will talk to Jonathan about his 2-d global planner and see how his work can help ours.
• Top Four get rights in the coming week:
1. Understanding the 2-D implementation of simulating a helicopter, to do this we can use Jonathans code.
2. Take Jonathan’s code and write code to have a robot responding in a 2-D world.
3. Figure out the mapping issues, see what the map will look like because we know it won’t be perfect.
4. Take what you have implemented in 2-D and try to code for 3-D.