Serris’ Status Update 2/29/20 – Team A1: Cooperative vs Non-cooperative Autonomous Driving

figured out motor inconsistency was due to power issue
- need to figure out how much power (v & i) the nodemcu needs to power the logic board and also be able to supply power for the motors
started testing wifi connection with python server
- was able to send one message from python server to nodemcu’s builtin led light
- tested latency and experimented on how to improve it
- able to send multiple bytes in less than 1s to nodemcu (previous tests used strings and took ~6s to send)
experimented with simple socket server system with one server and 2 clients
- designed communication structure and decided to send messages to clients separately as opposed to broadcasting to reduce amount of data being sent at a time
- was able to send different messages to different clients
worked on design report
progress is on track
- will continue to work on power issue and test cars
- will soon test sending messages through socket server to cars to move motors