Projects/Building Manager/May 23, 2011

Accomplishments

Month of demos is over!

• Google I/O

• RoboGames

• Maker Faire

Lessons

• Don't let kids touch GUI. Kids will pull out cords.
• NEVER WIFI, NO MATTER WHAT THE ORGANIZER CLAIMS

Next Milestone

• Warehouse on TurtleBot

• Rewrite mapping to use warehouse for persistence
• Apps
  • Build a Map App: creates a map, "saves" it
  • Navigate App: loads "last" map, provides user an option to load a different map. Need to have way to localize the robot.
• Future work: integrate fiducials in both

• Other priorities: rosjava/android robustness, TurtleBot robustness, app cleanup

• Success criteria: brand new TurtleBot, turn it on, configure warehouse location, run navigation successfully w/o building a map (within 5 minutes)

Dave: work on Android UI

Bhaskara/Nate: work on loader/saver from move_base/slam_gmapping, map listing

Tully/Melonee: turtlebot robustness, OSHW docs

Ken: rosjava robustness, app manager and turtlebot config

Questions:

• How do we do user interaction around listing/switching maps?

Deadline: June 6