(Disclaimer: This was a quieter week for capstone progress due to my hands being tied with a lot of other classes that had major deadlines due around this time. )
This week I focused on improving reliability with the pallet pickup especially in the weight transfer and poor traction of the robot after it picked up the pallet. Specifically, I learnt how to use the Waterjet in techspark and cut a bunch of prototype pallet pieces for us to try and pick up. We intend to do integration on this tomorrow (Sunday) morning.
I also focused on making the codebase parallel robot friendly as a couple of the functions were only optimized for handling one robot and we’re now scaling to multiple bots.