Progress: There hasn't been much progress lately (see Problems section). We are still setting up the spiri simulator and the container is ready for printing, although that has not been done yet. However, we found an open source program called OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision)* that may be able to help with image recognition using the camera that is built into the Spiri, so that the drone can navigate throughout the school. The software seems to have an extensive library available in many languages, as well as a forum in which anyone can post questions and ask for help. This seems to be promising, but we need to try it out before we can determine if it is good enough for what we want.
Problems: Our group is not very well organized and the project is moving along very slowly. This is a major issue that we need to fix very soon.
Plan: In this coming week, we will print the container, fine-tune it, and hopefully finalize it so that the project can move along. Also, we will experiment with OpenCV to see whether is satisfies our needs or not. Furthermore, we hope to have the spiri simulator running sometime this week so we can start learning how it works and have a working demonstration of both the simulator and Gazebo by the end of the week.
Meanwhile, we will attempt to acquire the drone, and since the dev team is not responding, we may need to just buy it as soon as possible. Moreover, Gui will continue to learn the basics of SLAM on the side in case we need to turn to that option, but that would be an extreme case, because it is both difficult to learn and implement.
*OpenCV website: http://opencv.org/
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