Timeline

Week 1

  • Form team
  • Brainstorm design and strategy ideas
  • Determine what sensors to use

Week 2

  • CAD drawings
  • Print prototype parts
  • Set up openCV on Pi 3
  • LIDAR data processing
  • Set up website
  • Compile bill of materials
  • Start assembling individual components

Week 3

  • Test openCV on blocks
  • Test gripper design
  • Start piecing components together
  • Develop new approach if predicted success rate becomes low

Week 4

  • Debug data processing
  • Trouble shoot vision
  • Fine tune end effector
  • Formulate inverse kinematics for arm in MATLAB

Week 5

  • Preliminary trajectory planning tests on mobile base
  • Finalize CAD drawings for final prints
  • Develop a plan C if needed (tele-op implementation)
  • Begin piecing major components together

Week 6-7

  • Perform tests, make necessary adjustments to mechanical, electrical, and software components of completed robot

Week 8

  • Final tests, make necessary adjustments to mechanical, electrical, and software components of completed robot

Week 9

  • Seeding Competition, reevaluate and adjust if performance is poor

Week 10

  • Final Competition