Kin Chin Chua - Design Notebook

Week of Sept. 05, 2011

Sept. 07 (Wed):

• attended kick-off meeting
  

Week of Sept. 12, 2011

Sept. 16 (Fri):

• attended weekly meeting
  

Week of Sept. 19, 2011

Sept. 21 (Wed) ~1.5 hour :

• participated in teleconference with HKUST

Sept. 23 (Fri):

• attended weekly-meeting
  

Week of Sept. 26, 2011

Sept. 28 (Wed) ~1 hour:

• attended group meeting:
  

1. Designed and drew a block diagram for the control system.
   
2. Discussed about some processors and TI microcontroller.
   

Sept 29 (Thurs) ~1.5 hour:

• Looked over the TI microcontrollers with Arm cortex M3 processor suggested by Scott and Jason
  
• Searched online for other microcontroller board such as Arduino Fio.
  
• Found a webpage introducing a similar project (WIFI Robot) and thought it might be a good reference
  

    ~ Instead of internet, the robot was controlled by the user by connecting a laptop to the router mounted on the robot wirelessly.

    ~ It also has video feed, so that the robot can be controlled even it is out of sight.

    ~ http://www.jbprojects.net/projects/wifirobot/

Sept. 30 (Fri):

• attended weekly-meeting

Week of Oct. 3, 2011

Oct. 6 (Thurs) ~2 hours:

• attended group meeting

1. Designed a draft of poster for VIP poster session

Oct. 7 (Fri):

• attended weekly-meeting

Week of Oct. 10, 2011

Oct. 14 (Fri):

• Search for some network cameras that might be useful such as:
  

~ http://www2.panasonic.com/consumer-electronics/shop/Computers-Networking/Network-Cameras/Residential-IP-Network-Cameras/model.BL-C1A_11002_7000000000000005702
~ http://www.brickhousesecurity.com/vivotek-pt7137.html
~ I found that some cameras are not bad but too expensive.

• attended weekly-meeting

Week of Oct. 17, 2011

Oct. 18 (Tues) ~3 hours:

• attended group meeting

1. decided to take a tank as the vehicle platform as it has more space for us to put things on
2. decided on wireless transceiver
3. some difficulties are encounterred while deciding to use an IP or network camera such as:

           ~ it might be difficult to feed the video to our server since specific software or webpage is required for the product.

           ~ the ip address of an IP camera changes dynamically as the vehicle moves

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