Personal Log: Kenneth Spear

Personal Log Started

• Met with the group and talked about the project and what needs to be done.
• Met with the client to talk about project issues

Week of Sept. 13

• Met with client again to discuss what we need to do for the week
• Look at introduction to ROS
• Research best tablets for android development

Week of Sept. 20

• Start using android studio
• Met with client

Week of Sept. 27

• Got ROS installed
• Met with client

Week of Oct. 4

• Did the ROS tutorials
• Met with client

Week of October 18

• Group meeting to get Android app to compile on everyone's Linux computer
• Get app to compile on a Windows machine

Week of October 25

• Met with client to show him first version of our app
• Discuss what else he would like to see added

Week of November 1

• Working on the robot app

Week of November 15

• Met with group to work on adding the laser view together
• Got the robot simulator working on my Linux machine

Week of November 22

• Met with group to work on adding the camera view together
• Set up the ros camera node on my computer
• Fixed gradle issues so that the app will now compile on any computer without any hassle, including Macs
• Demoed the app with our client and drove the robot around the building
• Discussed what other features he would like to see in the app
• Met with group to divide up the newly requested features

Week of November 29

• Began working on my task of adding GPS view to the app offline
• Got that working, but still trying to add a few features
• Fixed some and made additions to our code

Week of December 6

• Make final preparations for our final demo
• Demoed our app to the class

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Week of January 22

• Met with Vidal to discuss what needs to go on this semester
• Met with group to catch new members up and talk about progress

Week of February 5

• Demo with Vidal and met with client
• Working on incorporating ROS GPS updates into the working GPS app I have made
• Once this step is complete, I will add the code to our app

Week of February 12

• Added robot's gps on a map to the app
• Added ability to tap a point and get the lat/long coordinates

Week of February 19

• Added ability to press and hold to drop a marker/waypoint on the map
• Working on waypoint functionality

Week of February 26

• Fixed some bugs that caused the maps to recenter on robot unexpectedly

Week of March 4

• Added button to be able to recenter the map on the robot after scrolling or changing zoom
• Client requested a few things to be added to gps portion

Week of March 11

• Added things client asked for like displaying the tablet/phones location as well as the robots
• Working on setting up a tutorial for first time use

Week of March 18

• Fixed issue created by Dr. Vidal to fix the back button not working
• Fixed some bugs that were created by adding back button functionality and led to large memory use
• Created an About option in the navigation drawer to describe the app and how to use it

Week of March 25

• Removed preferences option from the navigation drawer on home screen b/c it caused app to crash
• Added a Help option to replace Preferences

Week of April 1

• Improved the Help option to have swipe-able tabs for different help topics
• Worked on fixing a few bugs

Week of April 8

• Added another About Fragment for the home screen because it has to be a support.v4.Fragment type to work in swipe-able tabs
• Finished making the Help option with all 3 tabs completed now

Week of April 15

• Testing the other groups app we were supposed to test

Week of April 22

• Finished testing the other groups app
• Group tested app on the actual robot instead of the simulator