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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