RCMeetingMinutes

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
  • Electrical
    • LiPo Batteries
    • Batt. Maintenance/Charging Cktry
      • Discharge curves
    • User interface
      • 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

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

• New Prototypes

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