Caroline’s Status Report for 3/18

This week, I tested a new method with glue to secure the motors to the robot. This method worked decently during our initial testing, but came undone with more usage. As a more permanent solution, I am looking at some options for tube or u-shaped brackets and will place an order this weekend. I also helped out with testing the motor control code that Aditti set up this week. We ran simple unit tests which would instruct the robot to navigate to a simple series of points such as (0, 0) -> (0, 1) -> (1, 1). Due to slight differences in the motors or other external factors, the robot is not always able to reach the target points. I wrote some additional code that helps the robot correct it’s course if it strays too far off of the intended path. I will continue helping to test the robot motion next week. Dataset generation is also my priority for next week. Now that we have the data pipeline set up and all of the necessary materials, I will start on this as soon as possible.