We just got back from testing at Gallup park for the second time this year. We discovered calibration issues with our compass last weekend and this prevented us from tuning our PID controller. After moving the compass to a better location and recalibrating, we were able to successfully complete the PID tuning. We celebrated by autonomously doing a figure eight!
We collected some good laser and camera data from our mock buoy course and got a chance to collect some data from our newly acquired Fiber-Optic Gyro (FOG) as well as chat about autonomous robotics with passers-by!
Off to the lab to analyze our log and integrate the FOG into our SLAM…