This past week, we worked on integrating,testing, and collecting metrics. We met up multiple times throughout the week, staying on call with each other while Heather assembled the physical device and troubleshooting together. We at least put together all the pieces — motor control, CV face detection, and acoustic location — and inevitably ran into bugs along the way. Our biggest hurdles were occasional crashes, laggy video feed, both audio and video detection having sporadic wildly off readings, and the stepper motors moving very slowly. We managed to resolve these issues and optimized along the way — our video feed is much closer to real-time, the audio and CV face detection jump around less and are more consistent, and the stepper motors are moving more quickly now.
As final presentations approach for this coming week, we will compile our results and put together our slides. Edward will be presenting for us. Then, after we present, we will work on the final paper.