Month: September 2021

This week I spent quite a bit of time researching various techniques for tracking multiple humans in a room using IR sensors. There are a few proposed algorithms for tracking paths of people in a room and distinguishing between multiple individuals. I worked to order these algorithms so that  when our parts arrive I can start testing as soon as possible. I also looked into some videos on how to set these up and coming up with and researching simple heuristic techniques for human tracking.

We are still early in the project but we seem to be on schedule. We are hoping to get our parts in soon (we submitted our order this past week) so that we can start testing. 

This coming week I plan to continue researching setup and tracking algorithms and possibly begin to play around with a few heuristical approaches provided that our sensors get in soon. 

This week, we mapped out our project as we prepared our project proposal. We started off the week with a general idea of what we were going to do. As the week progressed, we flushed out our idea, through meetings with Professor Yu and the TAs. We have spend a lot of time researching parts and discussing amongst ourselves both in person and offline in regards to what sensors, softwares, and communication systems we want to use.

This week, I worked with my team to further brainstorm our requirements, and decide which items we would like to order. I have been working on our proposal slides and researching technological limitations and challenges we may face, regarding the localization using a combination of sound and motion detection. We’ve also discussed our division of work and schedule.

This week most of the things I worked on were with my group members, Ryan and Diva, so this status report will be mostly a repeat of the group report. This includes speaking to Professor Yu about flushing out the details of our project, writing out the Proposal Presentation, and specifically the requirements, and the task scheduling. We also had a group meeting to establish more details about the circuitry of “Lights Out”.