Team Status Report for 4/16

This week, our team mainly worked to have all of our components housed on the iRobot to run headlessly. Now that we have the robot ready with all of its sensors fixed, we can start to test the Hector SLAM with the robot as a medium and even try to provide odometry data as an input to the Hector SLAM so we can avoid the pose estimation errors (the loop closure problem). After that, we can integrate the path planning algorithm, and after some potential debugging, from there we can start testing with a cardboard box “room” to map. As a team, we are on track with our work.