RobAIR2013-RICM4-Groupe1-Suivi

the Team

This team is composed of four 4th year Polytech Grenoble students, in System & Networks specialty.

The members of this team are Nicolas Afonso, Alexandre Corso, Laurène Guelorget and Simon Planès.

Project objectives

Our projet is a part of the RobAIR2013 project.

The shared project

RobAIR is a shared projet with two others schools:

• ENSIMAG
• Superior Pole Design of Villefontaine

The project consists of the development of a telepresence robot used for museum tours. It is a low cost robot (well below the maket price). The platform and software used for this robot are extensible and open-source.

Our sub project objectives

We are responsible for two main objectives:

• Alexandre and Laurène (shortened A&L) are working on the roaming between the robot and the landscape: Roaming ensures that the wireless device is kept connected to the network, without losing the connection. For that, we decided to use the Multipath TCP Protocol because it offers better throughput and a smoother reaction to failures.

• Nicolas and Simon (shortened N&S) are working on ROS: ... (des explications sur votre partie les gars svp)

Technologies used

• ROS
• Python

Material

• 1 Lego Mindstorm NXT Robot
• 2 Intel ExoPC Slate
• 1 USB Sound card
• 1 XBox Kinect
• 1 Lidar
• 2 DIY stereoscopic cameras

Progress of the project

The project started January 14th, 2013.

WEEK 1: from January 14th to January 20th

• We discovered the project and the different objectives.
• Installation of ROS and first steps with tutorials.

WEEK 2: from January 21st to January 27th

• We organized a meeting with the 3I4 and RICM4 students. During this meeting, we talked about what everyone understood of this project and what everyone objectives are.
• We met with the three students from Pole Design de Villefontaine and they told us what they have been working on for the last month.
• Meeting with Rémi Barraquand at INRIA to talk about ROS.

WEEK 3: from January 28th to February 3rd

• Writing of the SRS (first draft)
• Talk with Thomas Calmant and Joao Claudio Américo who worked on RobAIR before with Didier Donsez

WEEK 4: from January 4th to February 10th

• Meeting with the RICM5 working on this project
• Talk about the different options to use to implement the roaming. We decided to use the Multipath TCP protocol and we started to study this protocol.