Meeting 9

First one-to-one meeting with Frank. I explained the schema loading problem in detail, but he was unable to spot an obvious problem. It's beginning to annoy me as I originally wanted to have feature freeze by March 21st, and the ability to import schemas is central to making the learning simulation usable. Despite its importance, I'm putting this work on hold for the week to start on the learning task, which I've had to delay for a while as a result.

The first part of the learning task involves adding a method to change the torque value applied to the arm. This will allow the arm to move with varying degrees of force before striking an object. With Frank's help, I've isolated the code where the torque value is generated and decided that the best way to change it is by adding a new "torque multiplier" argument to the appropriate methods in the UpperArm and LowerArm classes. The multiplier will then be passed through from an updated Response object, which will contain the multiplier value.

As was the case last week, I'm confident of getting this done by the next meeting. The Easter break is fast approaching and I'm hoping to stay as close to schedule as possible.