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Author: Yuga Patel & Abriti Chatterjee
Witness: Ms. Manisha Shah, & Ms. Maria Osoria
Date: 9/14/2020
Duration: 5:00 - 6:30
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Attendance
Ahmed Mahmud
Hooryah Raja
Murtaza Raja
Manyata Arora
Amanpreet Dhah
Caitlyn Mei Roxas
Abrahim Mahmud
Shaurya Singh
Benjamin Fitzgerald
Martina Soliman
Anirudh Chaturvedula
Ria Gray
Asmi Shirsat
Abriti Chatterjee
Tessa Weaver
Leonard Malott
Mary Dawod
Arleen Dhah
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Atharva Khandelwal
Ved Borade
Tvisha Doshi
Venya Goyal
Eva Ji
Prajwal Khanal
Lutifiyah Mohammed
Sivaditya Padmanabhan
Yuga Patel
Vanisha Rajlakshmi
Astrid Salazar
Ehtesham Suhail
Alisha Varma
Ashita Birla
Syed Shah
Mark Rajah
Luniva Joshi
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Team Planning
Agenda
Think of any questions we might have about parts of the videos that are confusing to figure out, so the whole group can understand what the topics are.
Come up with any possible ideas that can be incorporated into the overall design.
Reflection
After watching the videos, we all have a basic understanding about what odometry is.
We understand the different functions of odometry.
We become more comfortable implementing odometry into our programs because one of the videos gives us a basic understanding about how it works.
There is some confusion about certain parts of the program. As a solution, we go over the problems and solve them.
Our team sketches out possible designs and ideas on paper and the Zoom whiteboard
Next meeting, we will decide on a specific strategy to get the highest amount of points, and decide what mechanisms would allow the robot to perform that task.
Hardware
Agenda
Research different possible prototypes to to get an inspiration of the robot design.
Come up with possible ideas that can be used and incorporated to the overall design.
Today we review YouTube videos of other prototypes to get ideas on how to design the robot. After reviewing those prototypes we sketch new ideas inspired by those prototypes. We also go over the possible ways the score (go to Game Breakdown for FTC Competition 2020-2021) and the qualities the robot should have.
Reflection
The only complication we face is visualizing what everyone is explaining, and their ideas on how certain mechanisms in the robot would function and look like.
Next meeting, we will decide on a specific strategy to maximize the amount of points, and decide what mechanisms would allow the robot to perform the most beneficial tasks in terms of points.
Along with that we are very successful in incorporating some of the ideas into our own design.
Our team sketches out designs and ideas on paper, or the Zoom whiteboard, to share with fellow teammates.
This is one the main robot design prototypes that we find while researching ideas on YouTube. We mainly discuss this prototype in our meeting today. We look at the different parts of it, and how it is designed, and we wish to incorporate some of these ideas in our design later on.
During this meeting, Benjamin comes up with specific ideas on how to score points during the different configuration periods. Along with that he also lists some tactics to score the highest number of points possible, and some things that we should avoid doing because they violate the rules.
Programming
Agenda
We find difficulty within certain parts of the videos. In response, team captain Ahmed addresses our confusions to grant us a better understanding of the concepts.
Reflection
Ahmed makes the programming team further research odometry; they decide to watch playlists online.
The program is entirely new, but it's based on the demonstration program from Friday. In this case, we merge both fowardMecanumEncoder and strafeMecanumEncoder with limited success.
In the future, we would like to add lines of code to existing lines we have in the program so that our code is actually able to do whatever the challenge of this week asks us to do. We identify some hurdles that may affect our program in the future, and are working towards fixing those problems.
We watch the last two videos from the playlist shown above. They are about the programming aspect of odometry and help us understand how to incorporate odometry into our progam. Odometry proves to be very helpful and we learn a lot.
Among the videos we are watching, this part of the last video is especially important since this is when we start learning how to actually implement odometry into our programs. The presenter of the video goes over the basic parameters used in odometry so that we have a better understanding of them.
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