Week 3

Day 1

This day began with a meeting with Dr. Anderson on what our upcoming goals are for these next two weeks. After this meeting I continued with figuring out why we could not get the arm to move with player/stage. So after reading a research paper by some researchers at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. I decided to email them to get some help.

Day 2

I continued to look at the player/stage problem and wait for a response from the researchers. Later that day I received a response telling me that he would refer me to some one else who had the driver for the arm controller.

Day 3

I received the config file for the arm controller began working with that, I got it to compile and everything for it to work. It still did not work for me. So I went back to exploring the file system for player/stage to see if I could find what the problem could be. Later this day we had a seminar on writing research papers for computer science. We received two books on this subject.

Day 4

This day was spent having a meeting with my other colleagues in the lab. We began to look at player/stage and determined that it would not be able to work with our lynx motion arm. We began to look at ROS(Robotic Operating System). This day was taken up for the installation.

Day 5

I began to look at the ROS tutorials learning how to different things with the software. Then I downloaded the specialized pkgs that are for the arm manipulation.

Goals Completed:

Evaluation of 3 robotic software programs

Goals I'm working on:

Getting arm to work with ROS


Begin: May 30, 2010
End: July 31, 2010