Completed work:
Housings are in progress, and electrical condensing is following suit.
UWB locationing is largely completed, only identifying air tags is left, and then coming up with a calibration process for the full bot setup once completed.
UI is successfully taking the data generated by the UWB and other sensors and displaying those data points on a map. Next step is to add a Kalman filter to combine our data properly over time to refine itself.
Goal for this Week (Teleoperation Prospects):
The goal is to have a bot fully operational and teleoperated by this Wednesday! That way Brooks and Adrian can move from testing in simulation to testing in reality. Housing has good progress, and I believe it reasonable to finish by Wednesday.
For electronics, we have already tested motors and getting data over WiFi, so it is now a matter of combining those principles to become teleoperation. We also have a camera on our ESP board, so that is a new thing to get working, but should not prove too difficult.
Risks:
Most risks have been seen and mitigated for. One of the bigger ones for our system is the fact that we only have 4 bots at best, and therefore are limited in our demo. However, we decided to separate the precision localization from our search algorithm to show off how the system will perform with many more as intended.
We will in one case have most bots still acting as anchors, while one or two move, and show the level of precision you can have. Then, in the other case, we will just have them all go out and search, without caring as much about the localization with respect to the global frame (as that was already proved possible with the first part)