How many chickens?

Chicken #1: Jenny from SEVT

Chicken #2: Julian from SEVT

Chicken #3: Winnie from SEVT

Chicken #4: Max from SEVT

Chicken #5: Lucy from SEVT

Chicken #6: Jerry? The robot? The person?

Chicken #7: The battery. Respect the battery.

Chicken #8: Hope!

Full writeup: https://github.mit.edu/maslab-2022/team-2 (Good luck with our sekrets :P)

1/3/2022 - 1/9/2022

• CAD for robot base
• Signal + Power Wiring
• NUC setup
• Strategy decided (top secret will post later)
• System code architecture design drawn
• Rough path planning code written

1/10/2022-1/16/2022

• Base laser cut + put together
• Initial sorting mechanism prototype
• Closed-loop square driving architecture done
• Test bot base complete + controls team is happy to have something to actually test code on
• Decided generally where the camera will be mounted on the robot
• Fine path planner almost done
• Setting up openCV

1/17/2022-1/22/2022

• Balls! Walls! Oh my! Basic CV working for relevant object recognition
• Path planning integration with ROS
• CV integration with ROS
• Problem: unpredictable jerking of motors at roslaunch, completely throwing off encoder based localizations, very difficult to calibrate precise encoder values for turning desired angles.