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Welcome to the RSS I Spring 2009 Wiki
This Wiki is an easy-to-edit website that will be used throughout the course for posting group work. RSS Students will make use of their group space within the Wiki for documenting group Labs and writing Lab Reports. For help with editing pages and formatting, see the media wiki handbook.
2009
Group 0 - The TA's example page
Group 1 - RoboCop
Group 2 - Jammers
Group 3 - Metal Face
Group 4 - Terminators
Group 5 - MOLL-E
Group 6 - Reasonably robust, reactive robot responding to rudimentary, random, rambunctious ruminations of roaming ranks of realism, running ruinously rational regulations renovated by receivers of research (aka R19)
Group 7 - Orca Seven
Group 8 - Crazy Random Happenstance
Schedules
Design Review (dry run presentations)
Design Review dry run presentations will take place in the following order:
- Monday 3/9, from 3pm-5pm: Teams 7 1 8 6
- Wednesday 3/11, from 3pm-5pm: Teams 4 3 5 2
You'll need to bring your team presentation on a laptop and show up when Carrick has you scheduled.
Teams will also give their regular lab briefings on Monday, 3/9, as well. Be prepared for both!
Design Review (actual presentations)
Monday and Wednesday, March 16 and 18, you will give a team design review to the whole faculty. This will be graded. Carrick will arrange the schedule.
Team Writing Conferences
Monday and Wednesday, March 30 and April 1 during lab time and after spring break, you will have team writing conferences on a draft of your team proposal. Bring a draft of your team proposal. The proposal captures all the feedback and comments from your design review and rolls it up in a more formal, technical proposal. Carrick will schedule these meetings.
Team Proposals due
April 6, your team's proposal is due. This will be graded by both CI faculty and engineering faculty.
Proposal Rubric
RSS' basic rubric for the design proposal from Jennifer Craig is posted at: http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.141/spring2009/pub/resources/RSSproposal-rubricS09.pdf
Challenge Presentations
Each team to prepare a 10 minute presentation. The presentation should include
- solution overview
- system architecture
- hardware architecture
- technical approach (here you should include the key algorithms you developed or modified)
- preliminary results
- lessons learned
6 May (Wednesday) - Teams 1, 3, 5, and 8 presenting in lecture (1:05pm-1:55pm)
- and
8 May (Friday) - Teams 2, 4, 6, and 7 presenting in lecture (1:05pm-1:55pm)
Challenge Runs
11 May (Monday) - Teams 1 through 8 to present during lab hours (3pm-5pm)
CI-M Lecture Slides
Normally, slides for each RSS lecture will be linked from the course syllabus at http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.141/spring2009/pub/syllabus.html.CI-M lecture slides will also be put onto this wiki because of their direct relevance to individual lab sessions.<p>
- 2009 - Feb 6th CI-M lecture "Expectations in lab briefings and Technical communication" (JLC) :
- 2009 - Feb 13th CI-M lecture "Individual Project Architecture Report" (JAC) :
- 2009 - Mar 6th CI-M lecture "Design Reviews" (JLC) :
- 2009 - Mar 13th CI-M lecture "Design Proposals guidelines" (JLC) :
- 2009 - Apr 3rd CI-M lecture "Debates" (JAC) : http://projects.csail.mit.edu/rss/wiki/index.php/Image:RSS_Debate_S09_upload.pdf
- 2009 - May 13th CI-M Open Consultations on reflective reports
TA Office Hours
for the Week of March 30-April 5
| Time | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
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| 9-10 | |||||||
| 10-11 | |||||||
| 11-12 | |||||||
| 12-1 | |||||||
| 1-2 | RSS Lec | RSS Lec | RSS Lec | ||||
| 2-3 | |||||||
| 3-4 | RSS Lab | VR | RSS Lab | ||||
| 4-5 | RSS Lab | VR | RSS Lab | ||||
| 5-6 | |||||||
| 6-7 | |||||||
| 7-8 | |||||||
| 8-9 | |||||||
| 9-10 | MT (9:30-11:30) | ||||||
| 10-11 | MT | ||||||
| 11-12 | MT |
Questions - on the Labs
Make sure you check the links we provide for each lab on the Lab Handouts page of the course website.
General Questions
Laptop Questions
Questions - Lab 1
Questions - Lab 2
Questions - Lab 3
Questions - Lab 4
Questions - Lab 5
Questions - Lab 6
Questions - Lab 7
Questions - Lab 8
Questions - on the Challenge
Make sure you check the writeup on the Challenge page of the course website.
In addition, you may find questions from previous terms in the Archives below that you'd like re-answered for this term.
Suggestions for Improvement
Confusing handouts? Lab descriptions not clear? Tell us so we can make RSS better!
Documentation
Java 5.0 API or ~/RSS-I-tools/docs/jdk/index.html
Maslab ORC4 or ~/RSS-I-pub/maslab/docs/api/index.html
Carmen, javadoc (or ~/RSS-I-pub/carmen/docs/index.html) Carmen Notes
gnuplot, info gnuplot, and man gnuplot
Other Docs including hardware datasheets
Image processing abstraction report
Miscellany
HELP - If you get stuck, contact rss-help at csail dot mit dot edu
IAP RSS Preparation Guide (for RSS Staff)
RSS Laptops - where are they now?
TA Guide (for RSS Staff)
How-To's
Care and Feeding of Your Group Repository
RSS-I-pub and RSS-I-tools (includes info on how to use prior lab's solution code)
RSS Code Development on Non-Lab Machines
How to contact people in Aero-Astro's Neumann Hangar - Tel: (617) 452-3316 (as of Spring 2009)
Archives
2008
Group 1
Wrangler
Group 3
Mah Nà Mah Nà
Mobius Dick
Group 6
Team Eagle
The HollowGnomes
The Challenge (2008)
Challenge Description
Challenge FAQ
2007
2007 - Challenge FAQ
Quotes for RSS-I Spring 2007
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Group 4
Group 5
Group 6
Group 7
2006
Quotes for RSS-I Spring 2006
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Group 4
Group 5
Group 6
