We all met as a team for the first time and began to do discuss the overall design of our robot. We brainstormed all the potential sensors we would need to in order to have our robot navigate the field. The type of motor we would use that will give us the right amount of speed and right amount of torque to fit our needs of the robot. 

once we had an idea of the components we would use, we came up with two prototype designs that would be presented in class and get critiqued by the TA's, tutors, and staff so that we can improve our design where needed.  

The team got together after the critiquing process and went to lab to finalize the design and begin to build a 1:1 model in solid works and begin to prototype  

Troy: Worked on the solidWorks and built the over components we would need to in order to see the model comes together with no problems before we cut it out and built it for real.

Omar: Started working on the tank circuit that will be used for detecting the track wire that is apart of the obstacles, he also worked on a bandpass filter that would ignore the noise coming from the motor as it runs so that it does not accidentally get triggered.

Christian: Worked drawing out the finalized design that would be built for the final project and started working on the website that would work as the lab journal for everyone.  

Christian and Omar with a group of other students went to the Jameco electronics to pick up driving motors so that troy the mechanical lead can finish the design of the robot with the correct measurements. This was important for the check off on Tuesday, also when we returned Omar finished the track wire sensor and was able to detect the track wire from over 4 inches away. 

Accomplished:

• Troy almost finished up the design and was able to mock everything up but the bumpers and the launcher because we are waiting for the launch motors to come in through amazon

• Omar finished the track wire sensor and began to plan out the design on a track wire.

• Christian began to draw out the top level state machine in order to determine what are the important things we need to keep track of, and time schedules.

Omar: Redesigned and completed a new track wire sensor on the breadboard  that would only use one op amp for each track wire circuit, this saves space and gives us the ability to add more sensors if we decide to use them for the final project without wasting so much space.

Troy: 90% done with the design of the droid, still waiting on the motors for the firing mechanism to come in, the online posing did not provide data sheet of any kind so we are delayed until then.  

Christian: Redesigned the way the HFSM will work, added multiple substates that will make debugging easier in the long run when the FSMs become more and more complicated. Also, keeps updating the journal and the gantt chart. 

Omar: Finished the Track wire sensor and the Beacon detector for the Tuesday checkoff. but decided to make a back up beacon detector just in case the one we have breaks for some reason. He redesigned the entire thing using a 2nd order butterworth bandpass filter instead of the narrow bandpass filter he had before. He also drew the block diagram to show how all the components will be connected , and the updated schematics for the new beacon detector and track wire circuit. 

Troy: All our parts finally came in so he was able to finish the design of the droid in Solid works. He will try to cut out the second and third base tomorrow in order to see how the UNO block and the unidirectional H-bridge will fit because that is a tight fit. 

Christian: Continued to work on the state machine diagrams that will be used for the droid, and set up the ES_framework in MPLabX so that the team can begin programing as soon as the  IR sensors are done. Helped with the block diagram while Omar started working on the second beacon detector.