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Revision as of 00:45, 15 July 2016

Daniel Cronce

Week One (05/31 - 06/03)

• Went through orientation
• Starting to flesh out what research project will be
• Read research papers on the meta-model and last year's project
• Meeting with Dr. Longstreet
• Meeting with Dr. Cooper
• Starting to browse and refactor code

Week Two (06/06 - 06/10)

• Updated around half of the test games to work with the new schema
• Demonstrated those test cases in the preview tool
• Started on some research on related and prior works

Week Three (06/13 - 06/17)

• Finished refactoring XML test cases to be valid
• Read through engine code
• Reading research papers in optimization

Week Four (06/20 - 06/24)

• Project is in the process of being changed... looks like detecting compromised actors in swarm robotics
• Read up on swarm robotics
• Read up on ROS
• ROS environment is now set up
• Will begin scripting multi-bot simulations

Week Five (06/27 - 07/01)

• Was introduced to HEIR lab
• Learned more about ROS and its publisher-subscriber implementation
• Researching fault detection
• Wrote flocking algorithm in Python
• Wrote simple movement program for simulated robot
• Made mid-way presentation
• Updating Wiki to correctly display current project

Week Six (07/04 - 07/08)

• Added custom messages
• Added communication channels
• Developed naive movement
• Integrated Boids algorithm with robots
• Implemented positional goals as external forces

Week Seven (07/11 - 07/15)

• Started on the monitoring algorithm
• Building and testing Wi-Fi trilateration service
• Attempting to decentralize swarm communication
• Finished re-imaging Turtlebots
• Now verifying motor functions and calibrating Turtlebots