Robots - Notes - What to Document

What to Document

Theory - Theory of operation, what a particular component should do at a high level

Design - Design considerations and trade-off's. Schematics, drawings, final block diagrams and flowcharts, specification to achieve.

Construction - Actual component construction steps, methods, and materials. Plenty of pictures. The How to's.

Characteristics - Measured and diagramed characteristics of  module from test bench.

Configuration - How hardware is actually implemented in robot system.

Program - How software is actually implemented in robot system.

Results - Measured performance after construction.

Lessons learned - What worked well and what didn't. How to do better if you were going to do it again.

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