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Outline and overview of works contributed by all members and alumnis from the University of Waterloo Advanced Robotics Lab （aka Waterloo Mechanical Systems & Control Lab.

• Supervisor: Professor Soo Jeon
• People: https://uwaterloo.ca/waterloo-mechanical-systems-control-lab/our-people
• Publication: https://uwaterloo.ca/waterloo-mechanical-systems-control-lab/publications

Wiki - Content:

• 💠 Home

• 🏷️ [ Lab ]: <--- Lab related information

  Topics	Note
  💠 Code of Conduct	Code of Conduct, with UW Academic Code of Conduct
  💠 Getting Started	🚧 ideally a manual for new comers to get started, :)
  💠 List of Projects and Papers	🚧 List of Research Projcets (Incomplete List) that are public
  💠 User Guide	🚧 User Guide on GitHub

• 🏷️ [ Logbook ]: <--- Log book for some of the trouble that was encountered (log and maybe messy ⚠️ , use only if encountering issues)

  Logs	Note
  💠 Jetson Setup	Manual setup logs for Jetson Orin, includes cross-compiling Kernels (now, mostly automated)
  💠 Ubuntu Setup	Ubuntu Setup (now, mostly automated)
  💠 WAM PC Setup	Internal / External WAM PC Manual Setup , (now, mostly automated)
  💠 Waterloo Steel V2 Upgrade	Logs on manual upgrades from V1-->V2-->V3 , V3 is managed completely by uwarl-robot_configs
  💠 ZED Camera Setup	Zed related issues, including hardware repair

• 🏷️ [ Tips ]: <--- A guide/tip that helps YOU to guide you when you are lost

  Tips	Note
  💠 Better Research	Tips and setups related to efficient research
  💠 Coding Guidelines	General Guides: Github, Git, Documentation, Python
  💠 Dev Tools	Development Tools: Git, Linux, VM, ... (incomplete), besides our semi-automated uwarl-robot_configs packages

• 🏷️ [ Waterloo Steel ]: <--- 🌟 The VIP (Very Important Pages) related to our hardware and development platform (Concised and actively maintained)

  Directory	Note
  💠 Automated Robot Configs	🧀 How to use our automated configuration toolchain: uwarl-robot_configs, latest @Readme.md
  💠 Platform Instruction	☑️ Platform Instructions: Powering, Launching, Networking, ROS, Development, Troubleshoots
  💠 Platform Launch Demos	🚀 Platform Launch Demos: Demos launching instructions
  💠 Platform Setup Hardware	🤖 Platform Setup for Robot Hardware: MXE 211, Jetson Orin, Steam Deck, Common in Linux with uwarl-robot_configs
  💠 Platform Setup Workstation	💻 HOW TO SETUP YOUR LAPTOP Linux / Linux VM (Ubuntu 18/20 , melodic / noetic) with uwarl-robot_configs
  💠 Spec Hardware	⚙️ Hardware specifications
  💠 Spec Links	🔗 Other commonly used links related to hardware specs

Hardware System Architecture

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Demo Videos:

• April 2022 | Multi-floor Operation Using The Elevator