This week, we made progress with the hardware of our design. We successfully powered the motors with the motor driver and the battery, as well as establishing communication between the UWBs. This is a large progress for our project as vehicle movement and inter-agent communication are the major portions. We had issues with the battery power and connecting UWBs with our system, but we were able to work them out within this week which put us on schedule.
This week we are expecting to work on vehicle control. Now that UWBs are functioning, space partitioning and rover movements based on coordinates should be integrated. We are also planning to have the IMUs and the cameras setup, which will hopefully put our project ahead of schedule.
As the interim demo is approaching, our goal is to have at least two rovers communicating and coordinating with each other. With current progress we are hopeful to have more functionalities available by the demo.