It's Been A While

It's been a while since we last updated this blog. We've pretty much been doing RC RC and RC.
The single processor motherboard has been put together and now works. However, further testing needs to be done.

We're also rushing to meet the week7 PCB submission. The board we are sending in is the triple processor motherboard and boy is it a routing pain. Good luck Khor (he's doing the routing).

Apart from that, we are still getting software done as well.. I'm kinda working on global path planning and motor interfacing at the same time whereas Shubbhy is bz with deciphering information from the vision system.

We'll i guess that's about all the updates we have for now.

Ps: for those anticipating videos, it will be up sometime soon. Our director/editor has been really bz

Path Planning

Soo... we've been mentioning about path planning quite a bit. LEt me just refresh your memory a little bit. Basically, it's the path the robot is supposed to take after processing the data given to us from the vision system.

At the moment the code is pretty much done up. Just some finalizing and integration left. Integration as in combining it with the existing code we have from last year's work and not dy/dx.

We're now waiting for the camera to arrive so we can start plotting points and taking some measurements to compare robot vision distance with real distance. In other words, what the robot sees, is not actually a linearly related to the actual distance it's supposed to travel. Therefore we're trying to plot a relationship between the two to do the necessary conversion. Boringgggggggg

Well that's about it for now. Episode 4 is on it's way, so for those of you keep up with the blog, keep looking out........
tatta