COMP3431 Notices

myExperience

Posted by Claude Sammut Thursday 27 October 2016, 03:34:20 AM.

All CSE lecturers are being asked to encourage students to do the myExperience survey for each of their subjects. Therefore, I encourage you to complete the survey :-)

Visiting academic using 510N

Posted by Timothy Wiley Wednesday 07 September 2016, 11:51:47 AM.

We currently have a visiting academic who is using the office 510N for 1 week. If your group was using equipment from the office you will still be able to get to it, but please knock first. If your group is using the desktop machine, please ask before using the machine, limit the number of group members using the office space and please be courteous. Otherwise the office is not available for use until after Wednesday next week (14th October).

Project Groups

Posted by Timothy Wiley Thursday 25 August 2016, 03:23:04 PM.

Can everyone please add their project groups on the " Project Groups " page.

Please use this page to update what your group is working on, and progress you have made as you work on the project. This will help Claude and myself see how all of the projects are progressing.

Homework update

Posted by Claude Sammut Wednesday 17 August 2016, 10:09:35 PM.

The homework for week 5 has been updated to fix an error. Now all the probabilities should sum to 1.

Demos for Assignment 1

Posted by Timothy Wiley Wednesday 17 August 2016, 11:55:22 AM, last modified Wednesday 17 August 2016, 10:11:38 PM.

The demo's for assignment 1 will start at 12pm tomorrow sharp.

Tentatively, the marking schedule is below. I've allowed 20-mins for each group for setting up time and the 15 mins total time for the run. However, it is likely that the order will change and timings will change. Thus please be prepared to arrive sooner than the slot.

If there are any problems with these times (such as clashes with other classes) please let me know ASAP.

Charging Robots

Posted by Timothy Wiley Thursday 11 August 2016, 04:52:39 PM.

Please remember that when you are done using a robot to:

1. Turn the base off
2. Plug the base onto power, AND
3. Plug the laptop charger in

If you forget one of these steps, then other students cannot use the robot after you.

Crosbot packages

Posted by Timothy Wiley Tuesday 09 August 2016, 11:51:11 AM.

For those wishing to use the Crosbot exploration and/or mapping, I've updated our internal wiki with more documentation details.

ROS Tutorials to go through

Posted by Timothy Wiley Wednesday 03 August 2016, 10:11:09 AM.

For starting on Assignment 1, it is advisable to cover the following ROS tutorials:

• Start with 5 & 6
• Work up to 12-14 (on writing code with ROS)
• Go back to 2-4 (on building ROS packages)
• Then intermediate level 1, 3 & 4
• Then ROS libraries for: Robot Model, Visualization, Navigation, TF (transforms).
• Maybe look at actionlib and PCL, but this will depend on how your groups solves Assignment 1

For now, you can probably skip the tutorials on:

• rosed
• ROS Services
• Which ever language (C++/Python) you are not going to use
• Rosbag (recording and playing back data)
• Intermediate 2, 5, 6, 7
• ROS libraries: pluginlib, nodelets, ROS-Industraial tutorials, Stage

Robot Status

Posted by Timothy Wiley Tuesday 02 August 2016, 10:43:39 AM, last modified Wednesday 03 August 2016, 09:36:51 AM.

I've added a Turtlebot Status page under the Software & Robots resource. I'll keep this up to date on what robots are working.

Assignment 1 Groups

Posted by Timothy Wiley Monday 01 August 2016, 01:17:01 PM, last modified Monday 01 August 2016, 01:17:20 PM.

I have uploaded the groups for Assignment 1 that were created in the last lab. However not everybody is currently in a group. If you are not, feel free to form one before Thursday. Otherwise we will just form the last groups in the Thrusday lab.