8:00 – SR

• NDA
• Backups
• Looking into a way of timing scripts. DOS has the TIME command, but that takes a ridiculous amount of formatting to produce a useful answer. It might be better to write a small utility and use that instead.

10:00 – FP

• Try out Firewire cable on laptop.

8:00 – SR

• Backups
• Server maintenance
• Scheduled additional training with Carla for Monday.
• Found out about the Internet Census 2012. Wow.

FP

• Filter out “expert” users (Lowest average time to complete all tasks
• Add error count (goal failuers)
• Fix commas+space bug in headset and Phantom code
• Add “System will exit” Dialog and exit() to headset and Phantom code upon completion of csv file.

8:00 – 11:00 SR

• Backups
• Fixed the workforce db issue
• Pat wants an appropriations column for Query Builder
• Tangie and Carla are going to give demos to some customers later this week and need a walkthrough of Req Asst.

11:00 – 4:00 FP

• Brought in my Mac Mini. Going to try for Boot Camp and win7.
• Time to experiment on Dong.

8:00 – 10:30SR

• Backups
• Meeting with Lenny
• Deployed FA4 for testing. Bugs follow:
  • total_budget in query builder needs to be formatted as currency
  • Expand columns in total grid to accommodate $999,999,000.00
  • System hangs when loading financial data viewer
  • Can’t move the server log panel or local log panel
  • budget_center.total_budget -> t.total_budget

10:30 – 4:00 FP

• Downloaded several wav files of sinewave tones, ranging from 100hz to 1,000hz. The files are created using this generator, and are 0.5 sec in length.
• Glued the tactor actuators in place, since they kept on coming loose during the testing
• Fixed the file output
  • Each test result is now ordered
  • Fixed a bug where the number of targets and the number of goals were not being recorded
  • Added a listing of the audio files used in the experiment.
• Got some initial results based on my self-testing today: 

8:30 – 11:30 SR

• Backups
• Deployed new FA
• Clear login info
• combobox left edge is not showing in columns
• Column width should be smarter
• Total budget in FA is orders of magnitude too high in the new query
• Project allocated on the project page is zero.

11:30 – 4:30 FP

• Got the electronics boxed up last night: 
• Need to add “practice mode that lets the user try a setup with a srand(date) and the ability to choose the feedback mode – done
• Fixed my buggy  sensor

8:00 – 10:30 SR

• Backups.
• Dong’s coming over? Yep. Discussion about queries with Lenny

10:30 – 4:00 FP

• Cleaning up commands. Mostly done
• While testing the “test” part of the app, I’m realizing that my “ratio” calculations have some issues. Before tying to fix them directly, I’m going to try just making a different gripper that has three “sensor spheres” on each finger. Then I can just let my “drag-based” physics to the whole job. Finished. That’s much better
• Quick! What’s wrong with the following code?

	for(int i = 0; i < 3; ++i){
		position[i] += velocityVec[i];
		if(velocityVec[i] > drag*ratio){
			velocityVec[i] -= drag*ratio;
		}else{
			velocityVec[i] = 0;
		}
	}

• Yep, the drag is only being applied for objects moving in a positive direction. This is a problem that has been driving me crazy for days. I thought is was some artifact of the communication between the Phantom control loop (1k hz) and the simulation loop (100 hz). Nope. Simple math mistake. Facepalm.
• Pretty picture for the day. Notice that the grippers now have multiple points of contact:

• I’ve also started to notice how feedback changes the speed that you can perform the task. Haptic and tactor seem pretty close. Open loop is much worse, at least subjectively. Let’s see what the data says.

8:00 – 10:00 SR

• Backups
• Training

10:00 – 4:30 FP

• Goal Box – done. I had to add collision detection for determining if a TargetSphere was touching (for setup) or inside (achieving the goal). I basically wrote an axis-aligned bounding box where the radius of the TargetSphere was either added (inside) to or subtracted from (touching) the size of the GoalBox. I’m not calculating penetration, just looking for sign change on the line segment.
• Added <map> of UI_cmd to handle commands coming from the control system and results coming from the sim. Worked right the first time. Yay, C++ templates!
• Enable/disable haptics/tactors – done. It’s interesting to see how the behavior and feel of the system changes with the different capabilities enabled/disabled.
• Started working on the experiment session management

Picture for the day: