Summary Report
Late nights, excitement and learning are how I would describe the GSoC period in a few words. These past two months have been a lot of fun, from starting off...
Week 3: Community Bonding
This was the last week of community bonding, however due to other commitments in college I had a hard time working on Visual Circuit.
The major work done this week consisted mainly of improving the solution to the Labyrinth Escape exercise.
I solved it using Visual Circuit as well, however due to a bug where string outputs weren’t being transmitted between blocks the solution made using Visual Circuit was quite crude and didn’t utilise blocks as well as it could have.
I also came up some ideas for new blocks that could be added to Visual Circuit:
- RQT block that open the vel-teleop and camera widget of Jde Drones
- IMU sensor
- Differential drive controller
- Ultrasonic sensor [low priority]
- Block to open Rviz with or without a configuration loaded in
My mentors were pretty happy with my ideas, I was told to keep the Ultrasonic sensor at a lower priority as the implementation could prove difficult. Since a lot of work was done on OpenCV blocks the last time around, there was a shift in focus towards ROS blocks
2022
Week 11: Coding Period
Going by the suggestions of my mentors, I spent this week working on the documentation of the blocks and some updates to my blog.
Week 10: Coding Period
This week I looked into MultiProcessing Conditions and finished the video of the FSM.
Week 9: Coding Period
This week saw the completion of the FSM video and the solution to the block size bug.
Week 8: Coding Period
I made more progress with the documentation and some other auxillary bug fixes this week.
Week 7: Coding Period
Another pretty busy week for me personally. This led to a bit of slowdown in the work done. However I started with the documentation editing through Jinja an...
Week 6: Coding Period
This week was quite hectic for me. My college started offline after a while, due to travelling and a few other events the time I could spend on Visual Circui...
Week 5: Coding Period
This was a week where I started to work on the Finite State Machine that I had mentioned in my proposal.
Week 4: Coding Period
This week marked a focus on completing the remaining PRs from last week. I also finished adding a new IMU block and worked on general share() and read() func...
Week 3: Coding Period
This week I finally finished the remaining templates from last week. I also managed to upload my created videos to the JdeRobot YouTube Channel.
Week 2: Coding Period
This week was about identifying and solving some bugs I had noticed during usage of the tool. I also started with the work template updation.
Week 1: Coding Period
This week marked the official beginning of the coding period. Going by last week’s set goals I started on the video creation part first and foremost.
Week 3: Community Bonding
This was the last week of community bonding, however due to other commitments in college I had a hard time working on Visual Circuit.
Week 2: Community Bonding
In my previous posts I had highlighted the challenges I faced while installing Jde Drones and getting code running on it. Next after these steps was to solve...
Getting Code Running on Drones
After I got the drones running now it was time to actually write the code to solve some exercises. The goal for this week of the GSoC period was to get 1-2 a...
Installing JDE Drones
Getting started with my GSoC period, one of my goals during the project was to make drone applications using Visual Circuit. JdeRobot’s Academy already has s...