Mae’s Status Report for 10/22/22

This week we primarily focused on the design report. We changed our use case requirement to the robot being able to pick water bottles up within a 1 meter radius, meaning that it should be able to see bottles from 2 meters away. With our testing right now, the bottle detection algorithm can only classify bottles that are approximately .3 meters away from it. This is a problem that I will be trying to fix next week, attempting methods like trying to feed multiple zoomed images to the bottle detection or other preprocessing techniques to attempt to get bottle classification to work from a greater distance.