Friday, June 12, 2009

Project ACE Work Log - June 11, 2009

Today I worked with Faradjine on testing all of the untested sensors for the infrared and ultrasonic sensors. I found two more deffective sensors during our test beforewe moved on to the ultrasonic sensor. The infrared test took about 0.75 hours to complete.

For testing the ultrasonic sensor, we had some issues because the sensor readings heavily depended on objects nearby (such as walls, types of walls, whether on a tabletop or not, etc). Hence, we decided based on this to solely do testing on the floor while noting the effects of some testing on tabletops, near walls, etc. This required a little bit of extra effort, but all of the testing was done on our subset for now, finding some good values to gain basic sensor effect knowledge from. We still need to complete the ultrasonic sensor sweep and verify whether they all work around the same median or not. This took the rest of the day, requiring around 3.25 hours to complete while I was here, followed by the extra time Faradjine used to finish testing the rest of the objects.

Aside, I proofread some changes to the writeups that Faradjine did and made a few extra minor comments and format changes. This took all of 0.5 hours (probably a little less to be honest).

For tomorrow, seeing as I will only be there a short period of time, I plan on looking over the sensor data collected, verifying any document changes that have been done, and then working on designing the layout for the compass sensor test with Faradjine, in all of 2 hours, hopefully.

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