As of right now the biggest risk that could jeopardize our project is the integration of the control system on the rover. We officially have a rover built but we need to integrate the electronics onto the rover which is going to require a significant amount of work. Our current contingency plan is to put our heads down and write code for the next week so we will have a working system prior to the interim demo. We don’t need to make any changes at the moment because we have 3 weeks of slack time built into our project timeline and with this we have two more weeks to get a semi-working integration of the rover then 3 weeks to improve the accuracy of our model. We see the claw kinematics and the object detection as the one thing that we are going to need to tune the most and we believe that three weeks is adequate time to achieve this to a reasonable degree.
There were no changes made to the overall design of the model, just some changes while fabricating that were planned. We added a slot that allows for the adjustment of the deadshaft wheel in the front, so our belts remain tightened.
The Rover in its non-electronic-burdened form!