This week we successfully performed the autonomous hovering of crazyflie. The details of the process are mentioned in this file , which is the continuation of "Installing ROS packages on Ubuntu" that I posted earlier. Here is a short demo. Next week we will use external position publisher to set...
In CoLo, there are two options for communication in CoLo-AT: real-world data or simulated data. Users will use the Communication Controller (C-C) to define a communication scheme and output the index for the sender and the index for the sender at the time step. For real-world data. the Dataset Man...
This week I have been debugging blocks other than the attitude controller. After finding a transformation from the body frame to the control frame, new matrices from linearization is generated. However, because the rotation matrix from the original paper is unknown, it is not possible to directly co...
After long time debuging for the Latex code of our paper, I finally submited our paper, titled "Analytical modeling for rapid design of bistable buckled beams", to arXiv. Hopefully the paper will be released at 14th Feb. online. After finishing submission to arXiv, we will continue to revise the p...
Progress of this week: a. figuring out why multiple faces on one edge would fail I tried to figure out why current Roco does not allow multiple faces on one edge. After a closer analysis, it actually allows that. The issue is that when we perform connect((faceA,edgeA),(faceB,edgeB)), Roco would...
After revising our requirements, we decided that in addition to the received signal strength, we also needed to collect information on the link quality in order to better characterize the connection between two devices. Link quality is an important measure that indicates whether or not a message se...
Before starting experiments of prototyping of mechanical oscillator, I wrote a Pre-Lab in order to clarify the purpose and method of experiments and perform experiments efficiently. I also figured out the plan of experiments in this quarter with this Pre-Lab. From now on, based off this Pre-Lab, I...
This week I reevaluated the linearization script I wrote last quarter. I modifed the script so that it uses the simplified dynamics of the quadcopter model (ignoring the angular acceleration and the moment of inertial of the propeller) LInearization Simplified Plan.pdf
Last week, Blaire and me finished the last revison of our paper. Especially, the error analysis of our model was added into the paper, as shown follows: Also, I worked on paper survey on the verification and validation of furniture design.
This week I redesigned an algorithm that calculates design parameters of the mechanical logic this week. Given that there are so many degrees of freedom, we need to find something to optimize and thus determine the best possible combination of parameters. One thing to optimize is the robustness--if...