Heather Taylor

Weekly Progress:

Week 1:

• Installed TinyOS and other related programs on computer
• Went through TinyOS tutorials: http://www.tinyos.net/tinyos-1.x/doc/tutorial/
• Attended Ptolemy meeting
• Went to first CHESS SUPERB meeting

Week 2:

• Read: The nesC Language: A Holistic Approach to Networked Embedded Systems
• Read: System Architecture Directions for Networked Sensors
• Installed & configured Eclipse
• Set up Source Forge Account
• Reviewed Ptolemy, TinyOS, TOSSIM, Viptos, & VisualSense
• Decided on summer project: creating a multihop demo for Viptos

Week 3:

• Read about threads in Operating System Concepts, (Silberschatz, Galvin, Gagne)
• Read: Viptos: A Graphical Development & Simulation Environment for TinyOS-based WSN
• Began looking at code in Surge demo
• Simulated Surge demo in TOSSIM
• Set up physical Surge demo in lab
• Attended Controls Dynamics Reading Group for presentation on Rene Thom, Structural Stability, Catastrophe Theory, and applied Mathematics
• Attended Lessons Unlearned in Wireless presented by Rajiv Laroia
• Met with Shelia Humphrys for graduate school advising

Week 4:

• Read: TOSSIM: Accurate and Scalable Simulation of TinyOS Applications
• Attended Preparing a Research Presentation Workshop by Dianna Lizarraga
• Attended Presentation by Al Pisano from Mechanical Engineering "The Future of Gadgets"
• Read through Surge code in hopes of finding packet format
• Attended CHESS SUPERB meeting where Nandita presented on "Stochastic Hybrid Systems"
• Attended "Sensitive Information in a Networked World" presented by Joan Feigenbaum from Yale
• Attended presentation on TRUST group by Shankar Sastry

Week 5:

• Attended Ptolemy meeting
• Met with Beatriz Lopez-Flores for advising
• Created plan of attack with Elaine for multi-hop simulation
• Added line element to MicaCompositeActor that changes its length based on input from a clock.

• Attended presentation by Dominique Duncan on "Highway Traffic Flow Analysis and Control"
• Began creating SurgeChannel, a communication channel that extends the functionality of LimitedRangeChannel by calling an updateLine() function.

Week 6:

• Visited IBM Laboritories in San Jose
• Worked on adding updateLine() functionality to SurgeChannel
  • Met with Elaine about getContainer() problem
• Attended presentation on fellowships by Shelia Humphrys
• Created presentation: Multihop Routing in Viptos
  • Set-up live Surge demo again
  • Ran simulated Surge demo
• Presented at SUPERB/CHESS & Ptolemy joint meeting
  • Gained a new method for implementing a graphical line in Viptos thanks to Edward Lee
• Revised/Updated plan of attack for creating demo

Week 7:

• Attended final SUPERB meeting
• Attended presentation by Nashlie Sephus on "Auto-Pilot for an Ultra-Light Flying Wing"
• Designed poster for poster session
• Created & Commited LinkVisualizer tool to CVS

• Test LinkVisualizer in existing simulations

Week 8:

• Developed demo in Viptos of Surge program utilizing SurgeVisualizer tool

• Wrote, edited, and submitted to SUPERB a paper on summer research
• Printed & Presented poster at poster session