At 2pm Beijing time on August 28, the Hushnow team met with Teacher Li Qi for the first time to discuss the specific requirements of Capstone's curriculum and several major topics for the project. Teacher Li Qi, as the instructor, explained his design and planning of the project to the team members.
In the second week, our group determined each person's specific tasks and simultaneously began searching and reading relevant literature. We have clarified the tasks for the next few weeks, among which Teacher Li Qi mentioned that we need to complete some of our literature reading first, while also considering the feasibility of the entire machine.
This week, our group had a productive discussion about the goals, overall plan, and execution steps for our graduation project. We focused on brainstorming and setting clear objectives for our project. Through collaborative efforts, we were able to establish a shared understanding of the project’s purpose and scope.
Our main task this week is to write the project plan. First of all, we identified the five most important keywords of snake detection and rescue robots: snake, detection, rescue, communication, obstacle avoidance. By expanding on these five key points, we identify the main problems that may be faced and the expected solutions.
This week, our team had a fruitful series of work activities that involved valuable interactions with our mentor. We began with a meeting where our mentor shared updates on the progress of our group's work and provided guidance for our tasks.
This week our group focused on motor selection for snake robots. In our discussion we focused mainly on whether the snake robot should be powered by a single high power motor or whether we should choose to include appropriate low power motors in each of the body parts.
In the twelfth week we had a meeting with Mr. Li Qi, who asked questions and gave suggestions about our design. Through Mr. Li Qi's suggestions, we first redesigned the structure of the snake robot and decided to use the model of a tank track as the motion model of the snake robot.
