What did you personally accomplish this week on the project? Give files or photos that demonstrate your progress. Prove to the reader that you put sufficient effort into the project over the course of the week (12+ hours).
Over this past week, I have spent the majority of my time bringing up the Hexapod. This has involved assembling (which took a surprising amount of hours, calibration of servos, setting up the Raspberry Pi with the relevant software, and testing the control of the robot. In the meanwhile, I also read a lot into SLAM with my team, since we need to consider how the Medbot is able to locate and move to other Hexapods.
The working robot can be seen in action here!
Is your progress on schedule or behind? If you are behind, what actions will be taken to catch up to the project schedule?
I think we are somewhat on schedule. We made a decision to only order one Hexapod rather than all three to give us more budget to pivot in case there was some error. So, we have done everything that we set out on the Gantt chart, but only on one robot rather than 3. We think that the bring up of the remaining Hexapods will be much faster, since we will already have experience and suitable tools.
What deliverables do you hope to complete in the next week?
I am delivering the Design Review presentation in this coming week, so I will be spending a majority of my time working on the slide deck and also script. When