This week we finished mounting all of our components on the robot with the exception of the contest required “start” board, which will be mounted early next week. We have been focused on the last aspect of our project which is the navigation system including localization and path planning with our laser scanner. We are using multiple packages of code from ROS (robot operating system) that function together to accomplish all of our navigation tasks. The majority of the code is already written, including our launch file, but we need to go through and create parameters unique to our robot. We also need to integrate all of them together. We built the microphone circuit for the start board this week, which needs to be tested for accuracy. Lastly, we tested the laser scanner in our arena and found that it detected the stuffed animal very well and gathered excellent data.