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DGC 120 Planning Team Wiki Page, Winter 2004

This is the Wiki page for DGC 120, the project course for Caltech's entry into the DARPA Grand Challenge.

The home page for DGC 120, maintained by Richard Murray, is http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~murray/dgc120/. Handouts and homeworks will be posted there. This is also where weekly status reports are due (for everyone).

The central location for project documentation is at http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~dvangogh/GrandChallenge/ (password protected).

Tasks and action items are assigned and tracked using Bugzilla at http://grandchallenge.caltech.edu/bugzilla/index.cgi (contact Lars Cremean, Richard Murray or Dave van Gogh for an account).

This page is maintained primarily by Lars Cremean, the planning coordinator for the team, for posting meeting notes and the like.

Team homework submissions

HW #1, Problem 1: GOTChA, timeline, status charts

Subteam Meeting Notes

Global subteam

Team Meeting Notes

Planning Team

Week 9: 02 Mar 2004 meeting charts (PDF) Meeting notes (HTML, Gunnar Ristroph)

  • Update status chart
  • Review, update and prioritize task lists, focused on QID event
  • Schedule midweek and weekend test plan

Week 8: 24 Feb 2004 meeting charts (PDF) Meeting notes (HTML, Gunnar Ristroph)

  • Demonstration of simulation tools for genMap navigation
  • Update status chart
  • Review, update and prioritize task lists, focused on QID event
  • Schedule midweek and weekend test plan

Week 7: 18 Feb 2004 meeting charts (PDF) Meeting notes (HTML, Gunnar Ristroph)

  • Demonstrate genMap-based navigation in simulation
  • Update status chart
  • Review, update and prioritize task lists, focused on QID event
  • Review and update team timeline

Week 6: 11 Feb 2004 meeting charts (PDF) Meeting notes (HTML, Alan Somers)

  • Demonstrate real-time MATLAB display
  • Demonstrate genMap-based navigation in simulation
  • Update status chart
  • Interface issues with vehicles, embedded systems
  • Review, update and prioritize task lists, focused on Sunday’s QID
  • Review and update team timeline

Week 5: 04 Feb 2004 meeting charts (PDF)

  • Update status chart
  • Discuss global team plans
  • Review and update team timeline
  • Review, update and prioritize task lists

Week 4: 28 Jan 2004 meeting charts (PDF)

  • Update status chart
  • Review and update team timeline
  • Generate checklist(s) for field tests
  • Review, update and prioritize task lists

Week 3: 21 Jan 2004 meeting charts (PDF)

  • Generate lessons learned from last weekend’s testing
  • Review current status and tasks for next tests
  • Work out interface issues with vehicle and embedded systems teams (MTA, camera and LADAR mounting, field demos, …)

Week 2: 14 Jan 2004 meeting charts (PDF)

  • Get demonstration of MTA code structure and operation
  • Update team charts to reflect current status/objectives/timeline
  • Build upon Bugzilla database for keeping track of team tasks
  • Discuss development of local map class

Week 1: 07 Jan 2004 meeting charts (PDF)

  • Bring all up to date on current status of planning team
  • Plan out the term in order to meet project objectives, using standardized tools for project engineering (GOTChA chart, timeline, stoplight chart, task lists)
  • Subteam decomposition of planning objectives, goals
  • Review available resources

Week 1 subteam GOTChA, status, timeline