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==8/29/08==
 
==8/29/08==
*Performance Numbers
 
**Theirs
 
**Ours
 
*Profiling of how our system works
 
*Make old robots driveable
 
**Set Screw or dimple shaft
 
  
*New Robots will be Status Quo Robots
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==Team Roadmap==
**Electrical
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* Document our system
***LiPo Batteries
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** Testing
***Batt. Maintenance/Charging Cktry
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** Design document
****Discharge curves
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* Refurbish 2008 robots so software can develop
***User interface
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** Reduce wheel play
****LEDs visible outside shell LEDS
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** Investigate ball sensors?
****Better access to on switch
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* "Status Quo" Robots
****Serial debug port
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** Performance Numbers
****Debug switches
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*** Theirs
***New radios
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*** Ours
***Measure charge voltage
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** Complete team by Jan 2009
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* "Fall Classic" with MIT and CMU? - possibly in the Spring?
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* RoboCup 2009 in Austria
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==General Electrical Roadmap==
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*LiPo Batteries
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*Battery Maintenance/Charging circuitry
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**Battery lifetime, charge/discharge estimates, "fuel gauge"
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*User interface daughter card
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**LEDs visible outside shell LEDS
 +
**Better access to on switch
 +
**Serial debug port
 +
**Debug switches
 +
*New radios
 +
*Measure charge voltage
 
***SPI interface to FPGA
 
***SPI interface to FPGA
 
***Add support for chipping
 
***Add support for chipping
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***Calibration
 
***Calibration
 
***SW test for hardware performance
 
***SW test for hardware performance
****Use tech challenges as a springboard
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***Use tech challenges as a springboard
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All teams will have clearly defined goals and plan to complete said goals
  
 
**General
 
**General

Revision as of 16:22, 10 September 2008

8/29/08

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

General Electrical Roadmap

  • 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
  • New radios
  • Measure charge voltage
      • SPI interface to FPGA
      • Add support for chipping
      • Work on kicking
      • Exceed regulation kicking speed
      • Ball Sense
    • 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