This past week, we spent most of our time re-evaluating our project specification and cutting down our design to a more feasible scope to be completed in the time we have this semester. I mainly focused on coming up with requirements for our project, researching reasonable, desirable (from a user standpoint), and quantitative metrics to evaluate our project. I also tried to imagine the challenges we may come across while building the glove and find ways to address them. During mandatory lab meetings, we communicated with each other our findings and how we can adjust our project accordingly.
I would say our group is slightly behind on ordering parts: we had cut down the design and now have more budget to try out a few different sensors to determine which is the best, so we are still gathering a few IMUs that we can try out. However, I don’t think this is a huge issue as long as we order parts at the beginning of this week.
This upcoming week, I will work on building a fake dataset that we can use to test different machine learning models on while our glove is being built so that we can determine which model we want to use in parallel with building the glove.