Meeting Minutes

Meeting 1 - 24/07/2015

Models required to be made

• People
• Animals
• 2 robots:
  • carrier
  • picker
• Static orchard
• Kiwifruit (optional)
• Bins

Work to be done before next meetings

• Each person to come up with a special feature we could work on at the end of the project (which one we will use will be decided later)
• Install ROS on personal machines
• Set up workspace on repo
• Begin task planning and allocating
• Come up with requirements

Meeting 2 - 28/07/2015

Every one get up to date with ROS

Features

• Weather terrain - rain and sun determines speed.
• Pilot with audio warning, or robots are able to warn
• Front sensors (cone), small side sensors
• Battery life. Recharge dock
• Workers transfer their picked kiwifruit into bins of pickers

Meeting 3 - 30/07/2015

Refer to requirements doc in wiki.

Meeting 4 - 03/08/2015

Check list tasks assigned to groups of 2.

Update members on Gantt, pert and WBS progress.

Organise for tomorrow's presentation.

Groups:

• Harvey, Jay = People and Unit parent class
• Jenny, Andrew = Environment
• Namjun, Andy = Animal
• Kevin, Chuan = Robot

Meeting 5 - 06/08/2015

• Introduce tutorials page
• Preparation for alpha

Assign more roles

• Debug View - Chuan (+Jay)
• Unit Testing - Harvey
• Node Expert - Andy

Implementation

• Create objects for speed, position (Composition rather than inheritance)
• Prepare nodes and behaviour
• Prepare world
• Sizing issues?

Meeting 7 - 10/08/2015

• final fix up for alpha

Assign more roles

• fix touch up on Debug View - Chuan (+Jay)
• Andy on publisher/subscriber

Implementation

• Create hardcoded behaviour for picker and nodes
• Demonstrating understanding on usage of sub/pub
• Make world more appealing

Meeting 8 - 20/08/2015

• See what people have been doing after alpha
• Decisions on how to approach towards the final version

Assigning roles

• Chuan - Keep working on debuging (improving gui and make sure all the rosout is fed into the gui)
• Harvey - Constantly test new nodes and behaviour being created
• Kevin - create all the different methods for node behaviour in parent class
• Bom/Andrew - Use bash script to create configurable row / and create better models for each object
• Namjun - Work on Possum animal and try different implementations
• Jay - Work on turning/people implementations
• Andy - Create a core that assigns actions for nodes, do picker/carrier implementations with the core (with help from Kevin)

Meeting 9 25/08/2015

• Checkup before finals
• Been busy so haven't had many meetings
• World is 99% complete, (just have to change with different requirements)
• Will be with each other most the time

Assign more roles

• Kevin - fix up collision avoidance and make sure it works within rows
• Everyone else - work on what they need to finish from before