Karthik Nayak daily progress report

Date : 24 May 2018 (Day 1)

• Started learning ROS from the following link http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Tutorials
• Installed Indigo ROS by following the procedure as given in http://wiki.ros.org/indigo/Installation/Ubuntu

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Date : 25 May 2018 (Day 2)

• Got familiar with ROS Topics like rqt_graph, rostopic and the various commands associated with it.
• Understood the overall flow of information in an ROS environment and to extract the information relevant for our study and analysis.
• Started with task 0 of Chaser Drone.

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Date : 26 May 2018 (Day 3)

• Completed task 0 of chaser drone.
• Understood how whycon for efficient marker based localisation.
• Started task_1 of Chaser Drone.
• Understood how to carry out remapping in .launch file.
• Went through the details of Pluto Drone.

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Date : 28 May 2018 (Day 4)

• Completed task_1 of chaser drone and completed the ROS tutorials.
• Started working on PID implementation for which I referred the following link http://brettbeauregard.com/blog/2011/04/improving-the-beginners-pid-introduction/

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Date : 29 May 2018 (Day 5)

• Started task_1_2 of chaser drone.
• Simulated hit and error method of PID tuning for localisation of AR Drone on Gazebo.
• Started working on Ziegler-Nichols method of PID tuning.

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Date : 30 May 2018 (Day 6)

• Got the pluto drone. *Installed the necessary packages required to fly the pluto drone.
• Camera calibration and hardware testing of drone

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Date : 31 May 2018 (Day 7)

• Started coding to implement localisation of a drone at a given point.

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Date : 1 June 2018 - 5 June 2018 (Day 8,9,10,11,12)

• Faced lot of Hardware related problems, spent time in trying to rectify it. --

Date : 6 June 2018 (Day 13)

• Prepared the progress presentation 1 ppt.
• Were able to make the pluto drone fly.

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Date : 7 June 2018 (Day 14)

• Briefed the gathering at progress presentation-1 of our progress.
• Achieved localisation of Pluto X drone using hit and try PID --