António Morais

Finals break

António Morais
Term Breaks

Demo-Day Presentation Materials This final week, the team prepared the evaluation documents needed for Demo-Day and for submission due to the subject’s evaluation.

Week 7 (4th Period)

António Morais
4th Period - Weekly Progress

Final Tests Last week, the team expressed the intention of performing more trials for each type of test and improving the congruency of the environments.

Week 6 (4th Period)

António Morais and João Carranca
4th Period - Weekly Progress

Final Tests Final tests on the robot continued despite TIAGo’s torso issues, which heavily limit the amount of testing time each day.

Week 5 (4th Period)

António Morais
4th Period - Weekly Progress

Final Tests This week, final tests commenced. The tests proposed by the team and scheduled for execution include Navigation in the testbed:

Week 3 (4th Period)

António Morais, Tiago Teixeira and João Pinheiro
4th Period - Weekly Progress

3D Mapping → LIO-SAM Following last weeks updates the team made tests with the Jackal robot and the LiDAR_IMU_Init package.

Week 2 (4th Period)

António Morais, João Carranca and João Pinheiro
4th Period - Weekly Progress

3D Mapping → LIO-SAM Following last week’s advancements, the algorithm still requires parameters representing the transformation of the LiDAR-IMU system (inertial measurement unit).

Week 1 (4th Period)

António Morais and Tiago Teixeira
4th Period - Weekly Progress

2D Path Planning/Guidance During Week 7 (3rd Period), the first of two main tasks for 2D Path Planning/Guidance was completed.

Midterm break

António Morais
Term Breaks

Mid-Program Pitch Deck During these two weeks, students were on their midterm break and exam season.

Week 7 (3rd Period)

António Morais, Catarina Caramalho, João Pinheiro and Tiago Teixeira
3rd Period - Weekly Progress

3D Mapping → LIO-SAM During this week, the team delved into testing the LIO-SAM algorithm, but a problem arose from the need for synchronization of the Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) and LiDAR.

Week 5 (3rd Period)

António Morais, Catarina Caramalho and Tiago Teixeira
3rd Period - Weekly Progress

3D Mapping → A-LOAM This week, the team collected real data from the robot’s Ouster LiDAR to conduct testing with A-LOAM .

Week 4 (3rd Period)

António Morais
3rd Period - Weekly Progress

Website development During the first week since the start of the 2nd semester and along with it, the ElectroCap Challenge, the team focused on launching the current website this is written on.

Week 3 (3rd Period)

António Morais
3rd Period - Weekly Progress

3D Mapping → LIO-SAM On Week 2 the team made progress regarding the LIO-SAM algorithm about testing it with datasets.

Week 2 (3rd Period)

António Morais
3rd Period - Weekly Progress

3D Mapping → A-LOAM In the context of the Mapping module, our team’s objective was to deploy the A-LOAM algorithm, and subject it to comprehensive testing in a simulated environment.

Week 1 (3rd Period)

António Morais and Catarina Caramalho
3rd Period - Weekly Progress

In the first week, the team focused on better organizing their tasks.