Building Manager/January 17, 2010

Accomplishments

Nate: Bhaskara and Nate have setup a package for the warehouse. Use sqlite as proof of concept to get the ball rolling. Will have second and third robots up soon. Added another deck.
Melonee/Tully [Create]: robot is running around, nav stack is running but not tuned. Using PSDK5 device instead of Kinect for now. Calibrated using microstrain IMU.
Ken: sick last week
Ethan [Pano/Create]: debugging create pano on actual robot, should have ready today. Got master system state in Android emulator. roscore was running on desktop. Forked rosjava to see if that can run.
Bill: RIDE demo is ready
Gil: waiting on RIDE

Nate: Multiple fake robots getting and pushing data to warehouse. Possibly serve map or door state.
Ken: Hoping to get iteration 1/2 infrastructure online (interface prototypes, app interface). Looking at the ros-application stack from remote apps team.
Bill/Gil: work with Gil to integrate single robot in stage with RIDE.
Melonee/Tully: Need to work on power converter board for Kinect. Assemble third turtlebot. Could use someone with EE experience. Tune navigation stack. Need to add power state to the create dashboard.
Ethan: tune/polish create Pano
Brian: investigate task execution for RIDE interface

Upcoming: 26th "ROS for the rest of us". Homebrew Robotics Club

RIDE Demo

Need to modify smach to be more programmatic.

First integration milestones:

warehouse/RIDE: show door state in RIDE map
warehouse/Pano: store pano result in warehouse
Pano/RIDE: set Pano waypoints with RIDE
warehouse/Pano/RIDE: set pano waypoints with RIDE, see result on map from warehouse
Issues: task execution: will end up as SMACH, but how do we get there?

ROS on Android:

Would be cool to 'program' a human to do an actionlib task via a text (Bill)
'Auction' interface to get humans and robots to do search and rescue together (Ethan)
Important for people to say how busy they are. People are bad at estimating utility on the fly (Gil)