Comms_2022_October_Scope

End of Semester Deliverable

Minimum
- Full motor control via control board
Goal
- Full motor control via control board
- Readings from all subsystems (vision, acoustics, etc.)

October 14, 2022
- Basic motor control
  - Must handle CRC
  - Must be able to stop motors
  - Must handle watchdog timers
  - Must be able to send instructions one at a time
October 21, 2022
- Basic motor testing
  - Must fully define control board motor spec
  - Must make a test class that simulates control board
October 28, 2022
- Full motor control
  - Must encapsulate all motor communications
  - Must handle multiple queued motor instructions
  - Must have test cases for all motor communications
November 4, 2022
- Full motor testing
  - Must have test cases that break things
  - Must simulate control board breaking
  - Must create at least one physical communication test
    - Could write a script for another system to run test cases
November 11, 2022
- Full physical testing
  - Must have test cases with an external machine running script
  - Must have tests with the actual robot dry run
November 25, 2022
- Camera system communications
  - Use gstreamer to get camera data
  - Comprehensive camera testing
    - Not a lot of testing for a camera...
December 2, 2022
- Acoustics system communications
  - Read only data collected unprompted
    - Throw away garbage readings
  - Software tests with break cases included
  - Physical tests with FPGA outside of robot
  - Physical tests in bucket/water

Safety
- Make every effort to prevent driving robot into a wall
- Always have a fallback case
Stability
- Keep a relatively consistent API
Assessment
- Can be tested and modified live in the pool