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 **Author:** [[unlv_he|Yu Hang He]], Email: <hey6@unlv.nevada.edu>
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-**Date Last Modified:** 09/19/2019
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 ===== Week 6 =====
 ==== New Person ====
-This week, I took a machine shop safety training program in order to gain access to the machine shop. The trainer is Patrick Callahan, who is an engineering technician at Tesla's factory. Patrick demonstrated the safety procedures for properly using various machines available within the shop. I am very grateful for the helps that he provided whenever I am having trouble within the machine shop. In addition, I met with John Holup, Trevor McGough, Keita Nishiyama from Gexcel. They met with me and another team members to demonstrate their mobile laser scanner.
+During the safety training of Spot, I met with Ozgur Dandin, a construction safety specialist. Ozgur is very familiar with various safety procedures and regulations within the Gigafactory. We invited him to the training session to have someone from the Environmental Health and Safety department to inspect the safety standard of Spot and approve its usage inside the factory. In the afternoon, both Ozgur and I have the opportunity to control and drive the Spot around the factory. Again, it attracted a lot of attentions and I am sure that Tesla's productivity dropped on that day. In addition, I met with Kevin Garell, Michael Perry, and Chris Lebrun from Boston Dynamics again.
 ==== What I Learned about Myself ====
+I loved the opportunity to demonstrate Spot and explain to the audience what Spot is capable of. During Thursday's training session, there were many people who were curious about Spot and asked me various questions about it. Perhaps it is a little bit self-indulgent, but it gave me great pleasure to be able explain Spot's capabilities. I am very proud that I have the opportunity to work with such amazing piece of equipment. Since our team is located with the engineering and construction group, there are many engineers who are fascinated by Spot and asked questions that I do have answers to. Hopefully, I will learn more about Spot and will be able to answer these questions in the future.
 ==== Project Status ====
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+I spent the most of this week working on the Desktop GUI for Spot. I planned to implement every function that was made available in their keyboard-controlled console program. I have no prior experience in creating graphical user interface, so the process took longer than I expected. At the same time, I have to learn how to work with Boston Dynamic's APIs. In addition to working on GUI, the actual robot arrived this Thursday. On this Thursday, we went through the training session with personnel from Boston Dynamics. Specifically, we focused on the safety aspects of Spots, such as what safety features are required to have Spot actually running on the Tesla's factory floor. The Spot attracted a lot of attention on the factory floor. Unfortunately, someone called the security team on Spot and claimed it as "unauthorized military type weapon." We did not get into trouble since we have all the permissions. But, it made me wonder what would be the reactions of factory workers once we have them actually operating inside the production area.
-I finished the design for the laser scanner mount. I created a Bill of Material for the mount and I am currently waiting for it to be approved. The mount includes an attachment to mount the scanner on the Spot and a roll cage that will be used to protect the scanner in case of a fall.
-I joined a tech demo from Gexcel that demonstrated their Heron Wearable Mobile Mapping solution. I was able to wear their laser scanner attached to backpack strap and walk around the office area to test their scanner. The mobile scanner collected a good amount of data during the short time I wore it. The scanner could potentially be mounted on Spot and used to scan the factory floor while Spot is in locomotion.
 ==== Project Agenda ====
-In preparation for Spot's arrival next week, I started working on writing a Desktop Dashboard for Spot. Similar to the GUI that was used for DRC-Hubo, the GUI for Spot will be built from Qt, which has the advantage of having multiplatform compatibility. I imagine that similar to DRC-Hubo, this GUI can be used as the base from which future programs for Spot can be build on top of.
+The plan for now is to finish my graphical interface for Spot. Since we have the actual robot now, I can start testing the software and debug it properly. In addition to the software, I want to get the bill of material for the mount and roll-cage to approved and ordered so that I can actually start building it.