• What did you personally accomplish this week on the project? Give files or
photos that demonstrate your progress. Prove to the reader that you put sufficient effort into the project over the week (12+ hours).
After spending a lot of hours in trying to get the ros control library to work (Too many including working on it throughout spring break) I got it completely working. However, we soon realized that it was not good enough for our control requirements and was jittery and buggy. this is because the library was made as a hobbyist project by a full-time SWE. This was devastating but we came to the conclusion that it would be better to just refactor the existing freenove library and control it as we know that that library works.
• Is your progress on schedule or behind? If you are behind, what actions will be taken to catch up to the project schedule?
I would say I am behind because of the weeks lost going behind the faulty Ros library. This week I have to compensate by working hard to get the existing control library with a server-client architecture working and also get working on the SLAM aspect since the demo date is coming up very soon!
• What deliverables do you hope to complete in the next week?
Get the controls library completely functional and work with Casper and setup the SLAM ros library.