Team’s Status Report for 03/21/2026

Risks:

There are no new risks at the moment. The biggest risk we anticipate has to do with potential issues coming out once we are able to assemble a bot, e.g. we find out that the voltage regulator is unable to support all the devices, etc.. The main way we are mitigating this is by testing components together when we can, such as testing UWB ranging where at least one UWB board is solely connected to the ESP32S3, which allows us to at least confirm that interconnect between individual modules works. At full bot assembly, this will save a lot of time debugging potential issues since we’ve verified which individual parts should work together.

Design and Schedule Changes:

There have been no changes to our overall design, we are still following the same path as before. Similarly, no changes have been made to the overall schedule. Completion of global frame formation has been pushed to Monday, but the following deliverable of trilateration is on track to be finished at the same time. Therefore, we are still on track for the upcoming interim demo.

Photos:

Initiator board (connected to ESP32S3) returning TWR info
UWB Responder (Connected to computer via USB) Serial Output
UWB Ranging ~15cm away. Left board is responder (powered by USB), right board is initiator (controlled and powered by ESP32S3)

UI:

LiDAR Working:

LiDAR wired up to the ESP32S3. Confirmed ESP32S3 was able to read measurements.
Schematic for LiDAR wiring above.

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