Author: Fausto Vega, Email: vegaf1@unlv.nevada.edu
Date Last Modified: 06/30/2019

I spent most of this week in Las Vegas due to a family emergency, yet I still got some work done. This picture is of the ROS files I have been working on. The purpose is to display the angle of the bounding box relative to the center of the camera whenever the service is called.

I finished the service and the subscriber to the bounding boxes. I have also learned to access the data from the laser scanner array. Therefore, the next step is to publish this angle to a laser scanner node that accesses the distance value at that angle which will let the robot localize the obstacles in its path. I have also been working on the paper deliverable that is required from the REU. So far, I have the intro, related work, and methods sections complete. The goal for this week to to get the Pioneer running with a navigation stack (or if there is not an existing one on ROS, then I'd have to configure an existing nav stack of another robot).

I learned that the only way to learn ROS is by working with it. The only experience I had with it was in Keitaro's class learning turtle sim. Yet, after that I have not used it for any projects.

I also learned that I can catch on to things quick. I did not know anything about open cv and now I understand the basics, the same goes with python.

I did not have a chance to meet anyone new this week due to most of it being spent in Las Vegas.