Attendees

1. @Austin Patel

2. @Jackson Paddock

3. @Kristofer PISTER

4. @David Burnett

5. @Fil Maksimovic

6. @Joshua Alexander

7. @Martina Balbi

8. @Razanne Abu-Aisheh

9. @Said Alvarado-Marin

10. @Thomas Watteyne

Minutes

• @Austin Patel

  • McCoy v2 testing: all seems to work except for 3-wire bus

    • on McCoy v2 3-wire bus worked

    • maybe changes to Teensy 3WB code?

  • big boards, looked at voltage source (all fine), but when connecting VBAT to SCuM, strange current draws

  • IMU (ICM20948) we are using is out of stock everywhere

  • preparing ICRA presentation, presented on Jun 3, 2021 (live, on Zoom)

• @Jackson Paddock

  • graduated!

• @Joshua Alexander

  • will be back in Berkeley in August

• @David Burnett

• @Razanne Abu-Aisheh

  • working on relay placement for a robot swarm

  • central controller decides when a robot should stop

• @Said Alvarado-Marin

  • designed a breakout board for the nRF52833

  • sent to JLC PCB, should arrive by Jun 1, 2021

• @Martina Balbi

  • released first firmware for the DotBot

  • BLE connectivity to a mobile phone!

• @Thomas Watteyne

  • 3 engineers joining Inria to work on robotics, interested in getting exposure to what we are doing

• @Kristofer PISTER

  • instrumenting robots with SCuM+LH2 for external positioning feedback