July 2024 – Robotics, Simulations, and Education Lab

Farzana’s blog : Week 8 updates

Tasks : Notes from “Hierarchical Planning With Annotated Skeleton Guidance”: Goal: The main goal of this algorithm is to efficiently guide robots through complex environments by using a skeleton that maps the connectivity of the configuration space (C-space). This skeleton helps in quickly finding sub-optimal paths, which is particularly useful in cluttered environments. Sampling based…

Farzana’s blog : week 7 update

Tasks : Science Center Symposium : Braintenberg Agent Task :

Danielle’s week 7 progress

Week 7: Braitenberg exercise, gym-duckietown simulation 07/22/2024 Today, I decided to tackle the braitenberg issue once more. I have updated the connections.py file and run “dts code workbench –sim” but when I try to open the simulator, I get a “site can’t be reached” error. This has happened a couple times. I have tried to…

yuwati’s summer blog: week_8

day3_jul31 Progress and Reflection: day2_jul30 To-Do today: Progress: day1_jul29 To-Do this week: Progress:

Farzana’s blog: week 6 update

Tasks List: Progress:

yuwati’s summer blog: week_7_progress

day_5_july26 Progress Today Tentative Plans for Next Week: day_4_july25 Goals For Today Progress day_3_jul24 Goals for Today day_2_jul23 Goals for Today: Progress day_1_jul22 Goals for today: Progress

Farzana’s blog: Week 4 update

Duckiebot update: Review of the paper ” Survey and Analysis of Multi-Robot Coordination” : The paper “A Survey and Analysis of Multi-Robot Coordination” by Zhi Yan, Nicolas Jouandeau, and Arab Ali Cherif comprehensively reviews coordination strategies for multiple mobile robot systems (MMRS), emphasizing the transition from single-robot control to multi-robot coordination. It distinguishes between static…

Danielle’s week 6 progress

Week 6: Paper reviews, duckiebot simulation, continuation of eDx course, science center symposium 07/15/2024 Over the weekend, I read a paper – Resolution Optimal Motion Planning for Medical Needle Steering from Insertion Surfaces – and had to do a peer review for it. Today we discussed it with Diane and it was pretty great. The…

yuwati’s summer blog: week_6_progress

day_5_jul19 day_4_jul18 Today was the day of the science symposium. Everything went well. We borrowed the duckietown mat that was set up by an alumnus, Jasna, and used that to present our lane-following duckiebots. day_3_jul17 Goals For Today: Progress: Next Steps: day_2_jul16 Summary of External Links: Goals For Today: Progress: next steps: day_1_jul15 Goals For…

Danielle’s week 5 progress

Week 5: Dts updates, edX course, battery issues, gym simulator and 07/10/2024 I came bright and early and to no avail, there was still no light flashing from the battery. I went ahead to take a new DB21J battery and charger. So now, I have the DB21J battery, HUT and charger with my DB21M components.…