Week 1 Training Material Development Overview

Week 1 Lab

Owner: Tyler Yeats (@Iluvatar)
Collaborators: Iain Bromley (@ibromley), Jonathan Phippen (@phippjon000)
Deliverable: Lab introducing newbies to iterative-style robot code via Robot on 1D track.
Deadlines: Design Freeze (Saturday, October 17th, EOD), Completion (Tuesday, October 20th, ROV Meeting)

Design Not Finalized!!!

Strategic Purpose

• Familiarize individuals with Python 3.
• Familiarize individuals with other members via small teams.
• Introduction to basic concepts and challenges of control systems.

Scope/Concepts:

• PWM-based Motors ([-5V,5V])
• Quadrature Encoders
• Joystick Interface

Simple Problems:

• Make robot sit at rest (run the code)
• Make motor move forward.
• Print joystick state to console.
• Map motor velocity to joystick input.
• Make "robot" move forward

Intermediate Problems:

• Make motor spin at a certain angular velocity.

Hard Problems:

• Make robot move to the ten-meter mark.

Questions:

• What should the API look like?
• What should the UI look like?
• Should we introduce noise in sensor signals?
• Should we introduce some damping forces (e.g. friction) into simulation?