1. Status Report #2 Autonomous Lawnmower Team 5 April Fowler Jose Manzanares Ranjith Raghunath Christopher Gerhardt 5 Feb 07 To design and implement an autonomous lawnmower, capable of traversing a lawn using only a beacon and microcontroller to direct location.

2. Overall Need To design an electric powered lawnmower capable of being operated autonomously to reduce the need for direct human control. Design Milestones Hardware Selection 1/31/07 Initial Construction 3/26/07 Interfacing Components 4/12/07 Test & Troubleshoot 4/20/07

3. Tasks Completed Algorithm for translating joystick movement into angles and format for transmission of signal to MC Program for decoding joystick movement to axis Selected and orders parts Connected wheels and motors Concept and basic layout of website

4. Ongoing/Pending Tasks Researching wireless transceiver modules (2/8/07) Built and assembled chassis (2/8/07) P-spice and wire H-bridge (2/12/07) Installing wheel encoders (2/12/07) Testing wheel motors (2/19/07) Continue research on computer graphics and handling of input devices with C++ (2/19/07) Interface digital compass with MC (2/26/07) Development of GUI (2/26/07)

5. Upcoming Tasks Link H-bridge with motors and encoder Begin interfacing electronic compass with MC Begin interfacing wireless module with MC

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7. Gantt Chart