Timeline
Week 1
Week 1
- Form team
- Brainstorm design and strategy ideas
- Determine what sensors to use
Week 2
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
Week 3
- Test openCV on blocks
- Test gripper design
- Start piecing components together
- Develop new approach if predicted success rate becomes low
Week 4
Week 4
- Debug data processing
- Trouble shoot vision
- Fine tune end effector
- Formulate inverse kinematics for arm in MATLAB
Week 5
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
Week 6-7
- Perform tests, make necessary adjustments to mechanical, electrical, and software components of completed robot
Week 8
Week 8
- Final tests, make necessary adjustments to mechanical, electrical, and software components of completed robot
Week 9
Week 9
- Seeding Competition, reevaluate and adjust if performance is poor
Week 10
Week 10
- Final Competition