Meeting Minutes 2007.02.27

Short Distance Ranging

• IR Size Sensing

• Really accurate DGPS
  • commercial base stations are at least $4000
  • need correction for each satellite
  • talk to Burning Man surveying

• soccer robots overhead camera

• dust sensitivity for optical tech

• ultrasonic, bandpass may be adequate

• can we get away with just GPS

classes of behavior

• pre-choreographed
  • preset trajectories

• human controlled
  • direct steering
  • push a button for a particular maneuvre
  • one of more directly human controlled, others follow algorithmically
  • wand

• emergent- algorithmic choreography
  • predetermined
  • real time

• autonomous behavior
  • sensors mapped to actuators

communications protocol and control

• CNC - EMC Linuxcnc.org

• telemetry frame
  • data frame, extra info for debug
  • debug dashboard