CS Honors Undergraduate Research Program Project Checkpoint

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CS Honors Undergraduate Research Program -
Project Checkpoint

• Tingyu Thomas Lin
• Advisor Professor Deborah Estrin
• Date of Presentation TBD

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Overview of Project

• It's hard to figure out where exactly motes are,
  but the ENSBox platform has mostly solved this
  with the ability to localize its own nodes and
  other acoustic sources.
• The purpose of my research is to integrate motes
  into the ENSBox system to
• use ENSBox as means to localize motes
• have a mote network trade information with boxes
• (potentially have mote network help in acoustic
  localization)

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Where I Thought I would Be By Checkpoint

• ENSBox and single mote communicating
• Localize the single mote
• Issue command at ENSBox to start process
• ENSBox tells mote to chirp
• Mote chirps
• ENSBoxes localize mote from chirp
• Verify accuracy of ENSBoxs estimate
• Have started working on localizing multiple motes
• includes making/borrowing mote network

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Where I Actually Am At By Checkpoint

• Have not started working with ENSBox at all
• Have laptop (running MoteNic) communicating with
  mote
• Almost able to have my laptop tell mote to chirp
• Code is currently broken (probably will be fixed
  by 3/17)
• In terms of Deliverables
• Just the broken code

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Why Im Not Where I Thought Id Be

• Biggest Issue Time
• Didnt start early on learning basics
• e.g. TinyOS and nesC, writing code for Emstar
• Initially didnt ask for help when I should have
• Once spent 2 hours trying to fix a config issue
  that Mike fixed in a matter of minutes
• Proceeded to repeat this mistake a few more times
• Other commitments
• Classes, life
• Difficulty
• I knew it wouldnt be easy, but I didnt act
  accordingly
• Ive rectify these issues, but only recently
• Next quarter will be more productive

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What More I Expect To Do

• The bare minimum I set for myself
• Localize single motes
• And then localize multiple motes
• Which includes making/borrowing mote network
• Analysis of ENSBox platforms ability to estimate
  mote locations
• Extra work if I have time
• See how mote network ENSBoxes can improve node
  localization