Supervisor Meeting

Today I had a very quick supervisor meeting with my supervisor. Results :

• I got the spare part for encoders, so now I can start to test my positioning code
• I got some tips about I2C technology(Several cards connected together with the same wire)
• I will have wired(RxTx, I2C, Dig2Dig, etc) & wireless(Xbee, ...) networking of Arduino cards discussed in my thesis
• I got tips that there are more products/technologies than Xbee 
• I get to write more about "Van der Waals" technology & discuss related to the conditions in offshore.

Supervisor meeting, new milestones

Meeting with my supervisor Mats Høvin, Summary

Today I met my supervisor Mats Høvin(associated professor at IFI,UiO). Here comes a summary of what he thinks I should be focusing on :

• Handshake protocol. I do not have this protocol & this is something that according to Mats, I better have it implemented in my code
• Zero Positioning. My suggestion to this challenge is to save the current position all the time either at PC side or at the Arduino non-volatile memory.
• Sending data packages back & forth in serial communication would possibly result in loss of data packages. How can my code handle this kind of problems ?
• Error on startup, fix for it ? Is it a programming error, or a hardware error because of Noise on reading inputs from ports ???
• Sending many bytes and the delays resulting by that
• The speed control, should be handled in java or Arduino ??? Maybe fast in the beginning and slow down little by little while reaching the end of the axle
• Play off modus & Should it be target based, or follow every detail from the log blindly ??? Discuss ...
• Camera candidates & streaming , but not image processing -> Intelligent cameras with output ports(how many???) for sending commands to Arduino according to the image processing done by camera itself.
• Using WiFi tech & how ??? WiFly component ?
• Programing a simulator in JAVA (xyz generation and visualization in JAVA)
• PHP/JAVA Applet GUI & Streaming show on website
• Multi Arduino card solutions ? Benefits and disadvantages ??? Discuss ...
• FPGA??? A possible solution instead of Arduino? Discuss ...
• Different methods to read data from encoders, External interruptions or software methods reading encoders value by analogRead() on loop frequence. Discuss based on Atmel/AVR architecture
• Positioning in the room & semi-Kinect sensors