The most significant risk that could jeopardize the success of the project is a delay in building a single functional robot. Most of our team effort this week was allocated to sourcing the parts for the robot, which for now is the compute + motor chassis. We are making the first order early, but only ordering a small number of components so we have enough budget in case the first batch does not meet our requirements.
We made one minor change to the system since the proposal presentation. The proposal outlines DOOR-SLAM as an example of a distributed SLAM algorithm, but since DOOR-SLAM uses cameras instead of LiDAR, we will not be using it and are still searching for a LiDAR-based distributed SLAM algorithm designed for ROS2.