Author: Francis Palustre, Email: palusf1@unlv.nevada.edu
Date Last Modified: 07/12/2024

This week, our team focused more on our work, so we didn't necessarily meet any new people at NNSS.

Recently, I been talking with Nathan more because of the current project we are currently working on in DASL and how nice it is to have someone in your vicinity to communicate with. A few days ago, he mentioned to me that there were other interns besides us two, but we never even saw them because they mainly worked remote. Knowing how restrictive working at RSL is, it makes sense, but it is mind boggling to me that we didn't even know they existed until WishCon, and in my case, Nathan telling me about them. So, I started to see the value in working in a team that someone is within walking distance to discuss current projects.

For this week, a huge lesson that was made even more clear for me is that I need to start thinking as team. It's typically quite hard for me to work in a team because of my reliance towards other people, but something I didn't quite consider

For this week, I am collaborating with Nathan in combining the real-world lidar data with my URDF model in RVIZ, so they can be in sync with one another. Honestly, it is one of the easier projects I was assigned in, but sometimes it doesn't make sense on why we have certain problems because logically, it would create a clear chain, or linked-list structure in the xml code, but RVIZ would say otherwise. So, while it is one of the easier projects, it is also one of the more confusing ones.