In the past two weeks, our team has made a lot of progress on our project. During the Thanksgiving break, we achieved the milestone set in Phase III of our schedule by completing our final integration test. As the TAs had warned us early in the semester that integration would be the most challenging part, we made sure that we kept the separate parts of our project on the right trajectory by frequently integrating everything throughout the semester. This has…
This week as a team we are putting pieces together before our third integration test. Early next week we plan to do this final integration test in order to be set to work on the rest of our deliverables for the final submission and demo of this project. We are all moving this/next week because of the holiday so that has been taking up some of our time. Major things that happened this week on the signal side, feature extraction…
This week our team presented a demo of our project to our TA and professor. The main components of the project that we demonstrated were the relatively complete subsystems of the hardware EMG data collection and the software system visuals of the game. The final subsystem of the project that is in progress is the signal classifier. We got feedback from Dr. Yu that we can generate simulated signal data in order to verify the functionality of our classifier without…
This week we did Ethics discussion about our project. While discussing about how technology projects have ethical side effects, we got to think about how our project can impact the way we expect to be, and the way we don’t expect to be. Ideally we want Myorun to be used by enthusiasts who would like to try out a fun game without touching controllers, or perhaps people who need to use arm muscles for rehabilitative purposes. But we also got…
This week we caught up to our Gantt Chart and got ourselves back on schedule by performing the first two integration tests. Using Kayla’s thoroughly researched experimental protocol, Tarana was able to record data for both a single electrode and an array of electrodes, and play the games that Alex has been working on the past few weeks. Our first integration test featured a single electrode and a very basic game that involved moving a ball around, which was designed…
Early in the week, we collectively worked on putting together our progress report. We received a lot of insightful feedback from our presentation last week, and applied it both to our report and also our project going forward. In response to this feedback, we have more clearly laid out for ourselves specific implementation details. For example, we have defined exactly what data is sent between each module and how, to make integration more clear, which was suggested to us in…
This week the team had a few successes on both the hardware and software sides. On the hardware side, the parts are soldered together we are just about ready to to record data from the EMG hardware system. On the software side, basic functionality of the MyoRun game is implemented and integrated with the Mock Muscle controller. With more game objects and functionalities being implemented, optimizations wherever possible (but not too much premature optimization) is crucial and the Software side…
This week the team had a few successes on both the hardware and software sides. On the hardware side, all the parts finally arrived so we have been able to solder parts together for the EMG system. On the software side, the mock controller has been helpful in serving as an intermediate workaround to test the game while the hardware is being developed. We are a little behind schedule as we would like to collect data in order to begin…
This week our team approved and ordered hardware components for EMG data collection. Our Bill of Materials is here. We settled on the specific arm movements that will control the game as well as where electrodes will be placed on the forearm. Another success is that the specific data collection experimental protocol has been established and a functional game has been created. A Mock Muscle Controller was created in order to decouple the game dependency on the EMG hardware. This…