This afternoon Jeff, Wentao, Zoe, and I went out for another boat deployment to test our image detection to path planning pipeline. Unfortunately we continued to experience diving problems, and we believe we’ve narrowed the problem to the Iver being unable to track the bottom of the sea at deep depths (>80m).
Jeff, Sam, and Wentao calibrating the compass.
Zoe guiding the robot.
When we came back to shore, Amy and Sam helped us carry the robot back to the apartment, while Roslyn made everyone delicious dinner. Thanks again Roslyn!
Tonight is the Isle of MTV concert, so Amy, Roslyn, Sam, and Wentao went to experience the largest free concert in Europe! Photos to be posted… Jeff and I stayed behind to continue debugging. Props to Jeff for sending many emails and making phone calls to get more information about how to fix our problem.
Debugging is always the hardest part of robotics, but that’s also what makes it so rewarding when everything works. We will be up early tomorrow for another deployment, and we hope to get Vernon back up and mapping wrecks soon.
