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.