This week, we worked as a team to get the robot structure built. Meghana and I placed additional orders for and picked up the rest of the wood from HomeDepot and hence we were able to begin constructing the frame on the robot. We cut the anchor part that attaches Read more…
This week, we worked mostly together as a group to complete the design report and test the bottle intake mechanism. Since the Amazon and AndyMark orders we had placed over the last two weeks had arrived, we were able to make a prototype of the spinning mechanism and test on Read more…
This week, we have been making progress in each area of the project and beginning to merge some areas. Mae worked on determining the accuracy of the yolov5 model, as well as the possibility of introducing inference learning if real-time inference was inaccurate. Mae and Serena worked on real-time Read more…
This week we worked on the design presentation as a group in order to clean it up according to the feedback we received from our proposal presentation. On the CV side of things, this week I continued working on getting a script for using openCV tracking along with the 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…
This week, Mae, Meghana, and I all worked on completing the Project Proposal Slides by solidifying our scope and laying out our requirements, tools, challenges, solution, and timeline. I rehearsed giving the speech so that I could deliver it adequately. I also worked with Mae to walk through our current Read more…