| Date | Duration (Hours) | Activity |
|---|
| 01/09/06 | 2.0 | Team and Client Meeting - Discussed 2nd Semester Plan |
| 01/11/06 | 2.0 | Began coding the line folloing alogrithm |
| 01/12/06 | 2.5 | Continued working on line following and navigation system |
| 01/13/06 | 1.5 | Set up daily log files |
| Weekly total | 8.0 Hrs |
| 01/16/06 | 3.0 | Successfully wrote and tested simple line following program; continued working on navigation system |
| 01/17/06 | 2.0 | Divided the course into a graph and implemented the graph in code |
| 01/18/06 | 3.0 | Continued writing code for the navigation system and how to handle intersections |
| 01/19/06 | 2.0 | Began integrating code for the intersections into the navigation system code; set a meeting for Saturday |
| 01/21/06 | 2.0 | Used the navigation system to measure distances from the board; distances are in centimeters |
| Weekly total | 12.0 Hrs |
| 01/23/06 | 3.0 | Met with clients and other members. Did a demo of what we have accomplished |
| 01/24/06 | 1.5 | Tested the robot on a replica track and fixed some bugs in the navigation code. |
| 01/25/06 | 3.0 | Worked on slides for progress report and also typed up the status report document |
| 01/26/06 | 1.5 | Measured more distances from the replica track and used them in the navigation system of the robot to increase accuracy at intersections. |
| Weekly total | 9.0 Hrs |
| 01/30/06 | 3.0 | Met with engineering team and discussed progress; worked on navigation system and intersections |
| 01/31/06 | 2.0 | Continued with navigation of the course worked on inline function for the intersections |
| 02/01/06 | 3.0 | Tested code for navigation system and achieved a successful run of the course. |
| 02/02/06 | 2.0 | Tested the maximum speed the robot could move and still navigate the course. |
| Weekly total | 10.0 Hrs |
| 02/06/06 | 3.0 | Met with engineering team and clients to discuss progress and complications. |
| 02/07/06 | 2.0 | Continued testing the maximum speed the robot can move while navigating the course. |
| 02/08/06 | 3.0 | Worked on the claw and was able to write a program which picked up and sat down a can. |
| 02/09/06 | 2.0 | Integrated several programs into a menu system so we do not have to upload each program individually. |
| Weekly total | 10.0 Hrs |
| 02/13/06 | 5.0 | Took some videos of the robot; created slides for the status report; fixed some of the black marks on the practice board. |
| 02/14/06 | 1.0 | Wrote some code for the sonars to find a can |
| 02/15/06 | 2.0 | Changed some code to use timer functions in order to avoid using busy loops. |
| 02/16/06 | 1.0 | Met with engineering team to discuss camera. |
| Weekly total | 9.0 Hrs |
| 02/20/06 | 3.0 | Met with clients and engineering team to discuss progress; continued to work on sonar code which will allow the robot to drive up to a can. |
| 02/21/06 | 2.0 | Worked with engineering team to inmplement camera class |
| 02/22/06 | 2.0 | Fixed our navigation code to straighten out the line following of the robot |
| 02/24/06 | 3.0 | Worked on integrating all programs to run a complete course |
| Weekly total | 10.0 Hrs |
| 02/27/06 | 3.0 | Met with engineering team; decided to begin a more advanced navigation system since the line following is done. |
| 02/28/06 | 2.0 | Began implementing wavefront algorithm |
| 03/01/06 | 3.0 | Continued working on wavefront algorithm and navigation class |
| 03/02/06 | 2.0 | Met with engineering team and began to put all of our classes together and figure out how to pass the needed information from state to state |
| Weekly total | 10.0 Hrs |
| 3/13/06 | 3.0 | Met with team and clients to discuss progress of the robot. Worked on making the robot as finite state machine. | |
| 3/14/06 | 2.0 | Writing a test program to display the results from wavefront algortihm. | |
| 3/15/06 | 3.0 | Continued writing and fixing bugs in test program | |
| 3/16/06 | 3.0 | Met with team and found out the bug in the test program was from the incorrect use of the navigation system class. | |
| Weekly total | 11.00 Hrs |
| 3/20/06 | 3.0 | Coding and debugging the newest line following program. | |
| 3/21/06 | 3.0 | Worked on status report for Thursday. | |
| 3/22/06 | 5.0 | Finished status report for Thursday; created a couple of videos to use as the prototype. | |
| Weekly total | 11.00 Hrs |
| 3/27/06 | 3.0 | Met with other members of team to discuss progress; continued working on optimizing existing code. | |
| 3/28/06 | 2.0 | Met with entire team to work on code; Began coding a different way to handle turns on the course. | |
| 3/29/06 | 3.0 | Continued coding the new turning algorithm; spent good amount of time testing new code. | |
| 3/30/06 | 3.0 | Worked out bugs in the turning algorithm | |
| 3/30/06 | 3.0 | Implemented the turning algoritm into the navigation code; tested the navigation code with the new algorithm | |
| Weekly total | 14.00 Hrs |
| 4/03/06 | 5.0 | Met with other members of team to discuss progress; Began to combine everyone's code. | |
| 4/04/06 | 2.0 | Continued combining everybody's code and eliminating redundancy. | |
| 4/05/06 | 5.0 | Team decided to put a touch sensor on the robot; spent time coding the touch sensor. | |
| 4/06/06 | 3.0 | Worked out a few little bugs and began packing for San Antonio. | |
| 4/07/06 | 12.0 | Flew to San Antonio; ran the robot on the practice board in the hotel; worked on optimizing the code. | |
| 4/08/06 | 7.0 | Went to the competition; every team had two runs; we chnged a little code to try to improve the time to complete the course; finished 9th out of 37 teams. | |
| Weekly total | 34.00 Hrs |
| 4/10/06 | 3.0 | Created slides for presentaion; uploaded some of the video from the competition. | |
| 4/11/06 | 2.0 | Worked on my portion ot the status report. | |
| | Weekly total | 5.0 Hrs |
| 4/19/06 | 2.0 | Worked on editing the dvd to seperate some of the clips for final presentation. | |
| 4/20/06 | 1.0 | Met with Devon and discussed how to deparate our work. | |
| Weekly total | 3.0 Hrs |
| 4/23/06 | 2.0 | Worked on final presentation. | |
| 4/25/06 | 2.0 | Met with Devon and worked on final presentaion. | |
| 4/26/06 | 2.0 | Worked on making some more videos. | |
| 4/27/06 | 1.0 | Practiced presenting with Dr. Blythe and Dr. Dooly. | |
| Weekly total | 7.0 Hrs |
| 5/2/06 | 4.0 | Finished creating the videos for final presentaion. | |
| 5/3/06 | 3.0 | Finished my portion of the final presenation and documentation. | |
| Weekly total | 7.0 Hrs |