RCMeetingMinutes

This document represents the results of a meeting held 8/29/08 where the core members discussed plans for the 2009 system.

Team Roadmap

• Document our system
  • Testing
  • Design document
• Refurbish 2008 robots so software can develop
  • Reduce wheel play
  • Investigate ball sensors?
• "Status Quo" Robots
  • Performance Numbers
    • Theirs
    • Ours
  • Complete team by Jan 2009
• "Fall Classic" with MIT and CMU? - possibly in the Spring?
• RoboCup 2009 in Austria

Status Quo Features

General Electrical Features

• LiPo Batteries
• Battery Maintenance/Charging circuitry
  • Battery lifetime, charge/discharge estimates, "fuel gauge"
• User interface daughter card
  • LEDs visible outside shell LEDS
  • Better access to on switch
  • Serial debug port
  • Debug switches

Control Board Features

• Bugfix and remake of 2008 boards (see 2.0 Board Errata)
  • Will keep motor driver circuitry
  • New ARM
  • Possible serial interface between FPGA and ARM
• New radios
  • Smaller, cheaper, in an emptier area of the spectrum

Ball Control (mechanical and electrical) Features

• Measure charge voltage
• Add support for chipping
• Exceed regulation kicking speed
• Ball sensor

Mechanical

• • Encoder
  • Support for chipping
    • Lower CG
      • Being able to reliably stop from max speed without flipping
    • Competitive Accel/Decel
    • Smaller drive modules
    • Less Maintenance of drive module and rollers
    • Ground Clearance

• • Software
    • Parameter extraction and estimation
    • Ability to switch which side of field
    • Burin tests/stress
    • World model/Data filtering/prediction
      • Probabilistic sensing
    • Integration/communication
    • Timing/Profiling of how our system works
    • Motion control
    • Calibration
    • SW test for hardware performance
    • Use tech challenges as a springboard

All teams will have clearly defined goals and plan to complete said goals

• • General
    • More practice time
    • Make a real field
      • Goals
      • Walls
      • Location
    • RefBox

• New Prototypes

RoboCup