Robotics+Project+Management

**Project title:** Robotics and Automated Systems **Group:** Adrianna and Alisse **Start date:** 11th August 2010 **Due Date:** 25th August 2010
 * __Group Progress Report__**

Brainstorm the tasks that need to be completed. Tasks 1-5 in the booklet – both practical and documentation


 * Task || Group Member || Estimated completion date || Completion date and sign off ||
 * Building the robot || Adrianna || 11th August || 11th August ||
 * Programming – Task 1 || Both || 11th August || 11th August ||
 * Programming – Task 2 || Alisse || 13th August || 13th August ||
 * Programming - Task 3 || Alisse || 16th August || 16th August ||
 * Programming – Task 4 || Adrianna || 18th August || 19th August ||
 * Programming – Task 5 || Adrianna || 19th August || 19th August ||
 * Documentation –1a-e, 2a-e, 3c-e, 4a-c, 5a-b || Alisse || 25th August || 22nd August ||
 * Documentation -1a-b, 2e, 3a-b, 4c-e, 5c-e || Adrianna || 25th August || 24th August ||

**__ Personal Progress Report for Group Work __** **Students name:** Alisse De Paoli **Project title:** Robotics & Automated Systems **Group:** Adrianna Amendolia & I My Roles in the group are:

To teach Adrianna how to program using the NXT software. To program the robot for some of the tasks and complete some of the documentation for the project.


 * Task || Date Due || Date Completed ||
 * Help Adrianna program task 1 || 25th August || 11th August ||
 * Program task 2 || 25th August || 13th August ||
 * Program task 3 || 25th August || 16th August ||
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; marginbottom: 0pt; marginleft: 0cm; marginright: 0cm; margintop: 0cm;">Documentation 1 a-e, 2a-d, 3d-e, 4a-b, 5a-b || <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; marginbottom: 0pt; marginleft: 0cm; marginright: 0cm; margintop: 0cm;">25th August || <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; marginbottom: 0pt; marginleft: 0cm; marginright: 0cm; margintop: 0cm;">22nd August ||

<span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; marginbottom: 0pt; marginleft: 0cm; marginright: 0cm; margintop: 0cm;">I will need to work closely/negotiate with: <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; marginbottom: 0pt; marginleft: 0cm; marginright: 0cm; margintop: 0cm;">- Adrianna because she is my partner for this assignment and we need to teach each other skills, (such as; building and programming), and complete tasks. We also need to designate tasks and assign our roles. <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; marginbottom: 0pt; marginleft: 0cm; marginright: 0cm; margintop: 0cm;">- Mr Morris because he is marking the assignment and can therefore tell us what is required, explain tasks to us and answer any questions we might have.

**__ Self-Evaluation of Group Work __**

** Did you know clearly what your tasks were? **  Yes.

** Did you complete your tasks on time? **  I completed all the practical tasks in the lessons that we wanted to. I completed my parts of the documentation before the due date.

** Did you contribute to the group discussions? **  I did contribute to the group discussions and organisation.

** Did you listen to others’ ideas? **  I did listen to Adrianna’s ideas. We used each others ideas to complete the tasks.

** Who did you help in your group? **  As I had learnt about programming and Adrianna had learnt about the building of the robot we helped each other out. So I helped Adrianna use the NXT programming software.

** Are you pleased with your contribution? Why? **  I am pleased with my contribution as I helped Adrianna, I completed my tasks to the standard that I wanted and I was able to work when Adrianna was away.

** Do you think the other group member if pleased with your groups’ finished work? Why? **  I think Adrianna is pleased with our finished work as it was completed on time and all tasks were completed well. Also we had fun doing the project and working together. ** What problems did you face in this project? ** We had a few problems with some of the tasks involving sensors. For example the task with the light sensor: We set the sensor to what we thought was appropriate but our robot didn’t pick up a change in light and was falling off the table. With the ultrasonic sensor: the sensor wasn’t picking up the low level table legs and the robot was getting stuck on them.

** How did you solve them? **  To solve these problems we asked other groups such as Nikki, Caitlin, Dora and Rachael for advise. To solve the problem with the ultrasonic sensor we took our robot out into the corridor where there are no table legs for it to run into.

** Which part of this unit did you enjoy most? ** I really enjoyed doing the practical tasks with the robot. I found the NXT programming software really easy to use, which made it enjoyable to program the robot. I also enjoyed the challenge of programming them correctly to achieve a specific task. I liked testing the robots out and seeing all our programming work put into action.

**__Group Evaluation of Group Work__**
**Did all group members clearly understand their tasks?**

Most of the time, however I did some of Adrianna’s theory parts by mistake.

**Did the group negotiate the allocation of tasks effectively?**

Yes. We allocated tasks at the beginning of the project. We modified this allocation throughout the project based on what we had already completed and any of the problems we had had.

**Did you finish the tasks on time?**

Yes, apart from the problems we encountered when uploading our videos. However this was solved as we just out them in a folder on faculty public.

**Did everyone contribute to group discussions?**

Yes. We would frequently talk to each other about completing the tasks and any problems that we were having.

**Did everyone listen to others?**

Yes, we listened to and tried out both of our ideas on how to complete tasks, etc.

**Did some members dominate the group?**

Yes, I admit that I can be a little bit controlling at times. However I did make an effort to listen to Adrianna and her opinions.

**What problems did your group face and how did you solve these problems?**

We had trouble with the light sensor at first. We didn’t know how to set the light levels so we asked Nikki and Caitlin to help us and they showed us how to get the reflected light levels from the robot. After this we had problems with our robot running off the table as it turned around. Again we asked Nikki and Caitlin for help and they advised us to get the robot to reverse before turning it around. We also had trouble with the ultrasonic sensor. As it was on top of the robot the table legs were too low to be picked up by it and the robot was getting stuck on them. To solve this we just took the robot out of the room and let it run where there were no desks.

**Where there any problems that your group couldn’t solve?**

We also had problems with our videos on our wiki. When we got into class today the videos wouldn’t play. We couldn’t get them working so we just submitted them into a folder on faculty public.

**Are you pleased with your end product? Explain.**

Yes. We are pleased as all the tasks were completed on time and fulfilled all the criteria. Also we enjoyed programming and working with the robots.