This week, most of my time was spent finalizing and ordering parts along with my teammates. While most of this process was straightforward, we did run into some issues with ordering the iRobot. Turns out that this is a popular item this year and was sold out pretty much everywhere. However, we were able to find a vendor and this issue was solved.
While waiting for the parts to arrive, I also spend some time learning about the iRobot create 2.
https://cdn-shop.adafruit.com/datasheets/create_2_Open_Interface_Spec.pdf
This link is for the iRobot programming guide I have been reading this past week. I leant about how to control the driving direction, speed, and turning angles of the robot. This link also talks about how to read in input from sensors. However, we do not plan to use this feature for in our final design.
Additionally, I also helped my teammates with the CV aspect of this project. It took a while to get OpenCV setup on my local machine and learn to use the OpenCV API for C++. However, we were able to create a basic program that could mask objects out within a specified color range.
The iRobot Arrived today!! So this week I will be testing out my newly acquired knowledge and try to get the robot to move around.
