This week we all worked on the design review presentation and I presented in the design review. With the introduction of obstacles, I modified the dataset to have all non-plastic bottle items be in the “obstacle” class. I trained the model on the new dataset annotations and got good results. Read more…
After the last status update last weekend, I CADed the basic parts of the robot. Below are pictures of the CADed robot from different angles. While I was CADing the robot, I also had to figure out exactly what parts to use and do research on one part over another. Read more…
This week Serena and I worked out more details of the software system, since we decided to add obstacles and obstacle avoidance to our use case requirements. We plan to add an obstacle class to the detection model and implement OpenCV object tracking so that our LiDAR can distinguish which Read more…
This week we have been working on the design presentation, as Mae and Serena work out software implementation and Meghana on robot hardware. We have two main changes to our project based on the discussions with Tamal this week. Instead of building a robot from scratch, we are going to Read more…
This week after speaking with Tamal, we decided to pivot away from building a robot from scratch and using an iRobot as a base instead. In the beginning I was struggling with mounting on the iRobot and it being more restricted, but then came around to the idea after more Read more…
This week, we made an important modification to our project as a team— after speaking with Professor Mukherjee, we decided to use an iRobot as our base rather than building a robot from scratch. Mae and I then worked on refining the pipeline for our software system, based on Read more…