This week, we continued to work on implementing and testing individual components, and we are getting closer to building and testing multiple vehicles working together.
Once assembled, we will test and tune basic vehicle movement like turning and driving straight and check the accuracy of motor encoder readings. We also have an algorithm for partitioning space to test once movement is nailed down.
For sensing and object detection, we tested some of the final components. The motor encoders successfully trigger a callbacks on the Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi camera can detect a brightly-colored target using the Python OpenCV library. The next step here is to get everything physically mounted so we can test everything together.
For communication/UWB, the Raspberry Pi can now send commands to the UWB module over UART to enter different modes of operation (transmitting/recieving/ranging).
Overall, we are still on track. It will be important to put at least two vehicles together early next week in order to stay on track.