= Building Manager/January 17, 2010 =

== Accomplishments ==

 * Nate: Bhaskara and Nate have setup a package for the warehouse.  Use sqlite as proof of concept to get the ball rolling.  Will have second and third robots up soon.  Added another deck.
 * Melonee/Tully [Create]: robot is running around, nav stack is running but not tuned.  Using PSDK5 device instead of Kinect for now.  Calibrated using microstrain IMU.
 * Ken: sick last week
 * Ethan [Pano/Create]: debugging create pano on actual robot, should have ready today. Got master system state in Android emulator.  roscore was running on desktop. Forked rosjava to see if that can run.
 * Bill: RIDE demo is ready
 * Gil: waiting on RIDE

== This week ==

 * Nate: Multiple fake robots getting and pushing data to warehouse.  Possibly serve map or door state.
 * Ken: Hoping to get iteration 1/2 infrastructure online (interface prototypes, app interface).  Looking at the ros-application stack from remote apps team.
 * Bill/Gil: work with Gil to integrate single robot in stage with RIDE.
 * Melonee/Tully: Need to work on power converter board for Kinect. Assemble third turtlebot.  Could use someone with EE experience.  Tune navigation stack.  Need to add power state to the create dashboard.
 * Ethan: tune/polish create Pano
 * Brian: investigate task execution for RIDE interface

Upcoming: 26th "ROS for the rest of us". Homebrew Robotics Club
 * Possibly do RIDE, Pano demos

== Discussion ==

RIDE Demo

Need to modify smach to be more programmatic.

First integration milestones:
 * warehouse/RIDE: show door state in RIDE map
 * warehouse/Pano: store pano result in warehouse
 * Pano/RIDE: set Pano waypoints with RIDE
 * warehouse/Pano/RIDE: set pano waypoints with RIDE, see result on map from warehouse
 * Issues: task execution: will end up as SMACH, but how do we get there?

ROS on Android:
 * Would be cool to 'program' a human to do an actionlib task via a text (Bill)
 * 'Auction' interface to get humans and robots to do search and rescue together (Ethan)
 * Important for people to say how busy they are.  People are bad at estimating utility on the fly (Gil)