1. The U.S.S.E Team #4 Antonio Alvarez Janice Cruz Jose L. Gamboa Miguel Rivera Status Report #1 January 26 th, 2009 Description: A follower robot that will assist humans.

2. Outline Overall Need & Design Milestones 1 Recent Completed Tasks 2 Ongoing /Pending tasks 3 Upcoming Tasks 4 Functional Block Diagram 5

3. Overall Need & Design Milestones  Why is the design needed?  Assistant Groceries Indoor projects  Design Milestones  Circuit Construction  Programming Phase  Casing Construction  Motors Implementation  Final Design Stage

4. Recent Completed Tasks Jan 03 Jan 14 Jan 21 Jan 25 Design of Circuits and Order Parts First Transmitter and Receiver Prototypes Final Adjustments on Transmitter and receiver Initialize Micro- controller Programming

5. Ongoing/Pending Tasks Time: March 24 Assigned: All Time: March 20 Assigned: All Time: February 24 Assigned : All Test Run Code With Circuitry Program/Casing Software Time: January 31 Assigned: All

6. Upcoming Tasks  Further Test and evaluate microcontrollers  Research on motors  Obtain extra parts  Encase transmitter/receiver

7. Functional Block Diagram

8. Project Schedule