ed in the lab at the hanger. We talked about the progress that we wanted to make for the day and the rest of the week and then we prepared for our informal demonstration at Poly Canyon Village. It was announced the week before to all the students housed in Poly Canyon that we would be down at the pool to show off some of the robots that we were working on. There was a small audience when we arrived and we told them about what we were doing in the pool and showed off each robot.
Alex and Jessie, with the assistance of Kevin, used the IVER to create a GPS map of the edges of the pool and then they wrote a program to have the IVER move from one end to the other. They had some trouble in the shallow end of the pool, but had a good run going from the shallow end to the deep end of the pool because it was a much longer run.
Greg worked on getting the lights back up and running on the crawler robot w
hich had broken during transportation from the last trip. Since the light was broken he did not deploy the crawler into the water, but did drive it around on the deck around the pool.Frank worked with the Video Ray ROV but was having trouble connecting his computer to the control box so he could not get sonar data or control the robot from the computer.
At one point a student brought a dog out to the pool area and it was very interested in the robots and was running around the pool following the robots in the water. After working at the pool for a while we all moved back to the lab and discussed what we all needed to do in terms of coding.
Kevin and Greg talked with professor Clark about coding with OpenCV to do video processing, while Alex and Jessie worked with the IVER code to prepare for the
next day when they would deploy it out at the Cal Poly Pier. Frank worked with the computer trying to debug the problems with connecting to the control box of the Video Ray.
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