Sam Adams’s Status Report

Sam Adams’s Status Report 5/2/20

What did you personally accomplish this week on the project?

This week I presented the final presentation and began debugging the GUI connection to the UDP simulator. This included rewriting portions of both the UDP simulator and the GUI.

Is your progress on schedule or behind? If you are behind, what actions will be taken to catch up to the project schedule?

Our progress is on schedule. I have completed almost all of the integration for the UDP simulator and I have already begun progress on the demo video.

What deliverables do you hope to complete in the next week?

I will be working with my team to finish making the video and the final doc. I still have a couple of changes to make on the GUI so I will make those changes before the we finish the video.

Sam Adams’s Status Report for 4/25/20

What did you personally accomplish this week on the project?

This week I begun the week by preparing for our demo. After the demo I have been focusing on gathering UDP metrics in order to be used during the presentation next week. I have also been focused on preparing to present.

Is your progress on schedule or behind? If you are behind, what actions will be taken to catch up to the project schedule?

My progress is a little behind schedule. I was not able to integrate the UDP part of the project in to the GUI before our demo on Wednesday. My goal is to get everything integrated before our presentation

What deliverables do you hope to complete in the next week?

Next week I am going to finish and present our final presentation. I also am going to complete the work on the GUI so we can focus on making the final report and the video.

Sam Adams’s Status Report 4/18/20

What did you personally accomplish this week on the project?

My team and I worked on wrapping up the implementation of our simulation for our demo on Wednesday. We first worked by defining an API so we could each work separately and still make progress. I then finished up the UDP simulator.

Is your progress on schedule or behind? If you are behind, what actions will be taken to catch up to the project schedule?

My progress is a little bit behind schedule. Even though I have the simulator finished for the demo on Wednesday I still need to add some meters in order to measure performance of the protocol. We also need to start thinking as a group how our presentation will be organized.

What deliverables do you hope to complete in the next week?

Next week we are going to wrap up the coding portion of this assignment for our demo on Wednesday. I also want to get started on the final presentation.

Sam Adams’s Status Report for 4/11/20

What did you personally accomplish this week on the project?

I finished up the code required for the demo of our project on Wednesday. I also worked with my team to discuss how we are going to integrate all of our protocols together along with the GUI.

Is your progress on schedule or behind? If you are behind, what actions will be taken to catch up to the project schedule?

Our progress seems to be on schedule with regard to the demo we gave on Wednesday. We still however have a lot to do in order to make sure that all of our parts of the project fit together in a deliverable form.

What deliverables do you hope to complete in the next week?

I hope to finish the integration of my protocol with the GUI. I also want to make myself available to work on other parts of the project if needed.

Sam Adams’s Status Report for 4/4/20

What did you personally accomplish this week on the project?

I worked on writing the code for the wifi simulator for our demo on Wednesday. My group also met a couple of times this week to discuss the APIs that we would be using in between the different protocols. This made it easier for us to integrate our code together after we finish writing our individual parts

Is your progress on schedule or behind? If you are behind, what actions will be taken to catch up to the project schedule?

Our progress seems to be on schedule as of now. We are in a very good place right now with the demo coming up in the next week.

What deliverables do you hope to complete in the next week?

I hope to finish up the coding for our demo on Wednesday. I also hope to start working on the integration and the analysis section of our project after the demo.

Sam Adam’s Status Report 3/21/2020

What did you personally accomplish this week on the project?

Over spring break, I worked on finishing up the wifi-UDP implementation. I also worked with my team to pivot the scope of our project in order to work on it remotely.

Is your progress on schedule or behind? If you are behind, what actions will be taken to catch up to the project schedule?

I believe that my progress is slightly behind due to the re-designing that we had to do to account for not being able to physically be together to implement the hardware components. However I do feel like the work I was able to get done over spring break puts me into a good spot considering the re scoping of the project.

What deliverables do you hope to complete in the next week?

I hope to finish the UDP/Wifi and write sufficient and thorough test benches to verify that I’m properly simulating the error detection and handling. This would free up my time to help out my teammates on the other communication protocols.

Sam Adams’s Status Report for 3/7/20

What did you personally accomplish this week on the project?

This week I worked on finalizing the design decisions for the design doc that we submitted on Monday. After that my team and I finished making the final design decisions, I began to work on implementing the UDP packet protocol. I was able to make good progress by implementing the barebones of the protocol. I also met with my team so we could set some goals for spring break as we all plan to do a little bit of work over the break.

Is your progress on schedule or behind? If you are behind, what actions will be taken to catch up to the project schedule?

We are on schedule. We are done with the design document and we hope to have the initial versions of all of the protocols before our first demo. My goal is to use spring break to get ahead on the implementation phase.

What deliverables do you hope to complete in the next week?

I hope to have completed coding the UDP protocol by next week. I want to finish it relatively early so I can help my team with the implementation of the other protocols that we are working on.

Sam Adams’s Status Report for 2/29/20

What did you personally accomplish this week on the project?

This week I focused on following up on the feedback that we got during our design presentation. This involved getting more concrete metrics that can be used during the creation of our design doc. To do this I spent most of my time researching the procedures and devices being used by the CubeRover team in order to set the scope of the UDP design. After this I was able to go over my design again with a fine tooth comb in order to make sure that all the requirements were being met and that we were in scope. I also spent time creating a backup plan incase we ran into problems implementing the design.

Is your progress on schedule or behind? If you are behind, what actions will be taken to catch up to the project schedule?

I ended up getting a little behind this week. The peer reviews from the design presentation were eye opening and we realized we had to make some design changes before we submitted the design doc and started the implementation phase. In order to make up for this week I am planning to do a lot of work over spring break in order to catch up on the implementation phase.

What deliverables do you hope to complete in the next week?

This next week I want to start the implementation of our design. My goal is to be able to pass some simple benchmark tests by the end of the week (such as sending and receiving basic packets on our MCU). This would give me a big leg up on the implementation phase as I would be able to start adding the more complicated features and optimizing in the weeks following.

Sam Adams’s Status Report for 2/22/20

What did you personally accomplish this week on the project?

This week I focused on finalizing the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) that we will be using for communication over Wifi. I was able to settle on a simplified version of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). Using some code I had written previously I was able to write a very basic python program to mimic the protocol I decided to design.

Some of these decisions that were made are outlined here.

I also spent a lot of time meeting with my team in order to finalize the APIs. We also spent a lot of time making general design decisions concerning the layout of our system.

Is your progress on schedule or behind? If you are behind, what actions will be taken to catch up to the project schedule?

My progress now seems to be on schedule again. Looking on the Gantt Chart I am right on schedule in terms of the design and I was hoping to get ahead on the implementation of the UDP protocol over WiFi. Even though I haven’t started the final implementation of this protocol on the MCU, I was able to write a preliminary test protocol that will be very useful down the road when implementing this protocol.

Looking forward into next week, a lot of my time will be put into creating the final design doc for the project. I think this will end up putting me a little bit behind schedule so I might have to do some overtime next weekend in order to stay caught up on the implementation stage. I feel that getting a prototype done early will be huge for the parts that I am working on as I’m guessing that optimization will be the most time intensive part.

What deliverables do you hope to complete in the next week?

Next week I will be focusing on getting the design document finalized and completed. This will include the consideration of any criticism that we received during the design presentation.

I also want to start playing around with the MCUs that were shipped in this week to see if we can get some basic communication going.

Sam Adams’s Status Report 2/15/2020

What did you personally accomplish this week on the project?

This week I mainly focused on defining the parameters for the UDP protocol. I had already decided to write a TCP implementation over UDP but I used this week to look deeper into the specifics of the protocol. I looked through some libraries that others had written to see they satisfied what I was looking for, but I determined that the best approach would be for me to write my own protocol from scratch to allow for maximum customization and optimization. In order to write this protocol from scratch I spent a lot of time reviewing my code and notes from 18-447 (Introduction to Computer Networks) where I worked on very similar protocols that I will be implementing later. This took up a majority of my time.

The second thing I worked on this week was researching the software structure of the drivers. I was able to find the source code for drivers running on both the Hercules RM36 MCU and the Watchdog MSP430FR5994. This allowed me to start planning how we were going to implement the serial protocols (especially i2c).

Is your progress on schedule or behind? If you are behind, what actions will be taken to catch up to the project schedule?

I hoped I would have been able to define all of the parameters for the TCP over UDP but I wasn’t able to fully do that. In order to catch up I hope to spend some time before our team meets in lab on Monday to fully define the UDP protocol.

I had hoped to start implementation of the i2c drivers this week. Even though that did not happen I believe that we made significant enough progress to get some real work done next week as I was able to define a starting point for the implementation of the serial communication protocols.

Even though I am not as far along as I’d hoped to be, I am a lot more confident going forward. Coming into this week I was very lost on what I should be doing to accomplish our goals but after this week I feel much better about things going forward.

What deliverables do you hope to complete in the next week?

Next week I hope to be able to write an initial testing routine along with a basic UDP protocol. I also hope to be able to start creating a simple test for the i2c driver protocol on both the Hercules and the Watchdog. I believe that establishing these workspaces for both the UDP and the i2c protocol will be paramount to our success in the future.