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…
This week and the ending of last week were crucial towards the development of our project, tasks and schedule. We brainstormed and prepared for the Project Proposal Presentation. We also put together the slides and spent a lot of time discussing and breaking down our schedule. We also were able 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…
In the beginning of the week, Mae and I helped Serena with the Project Proposal Slides. During the slide preparations I made a rough Figma design of what the robot will look like. In the upcoming week I plan to fully CAD the design to understand the practicality of it Read more…
This week Serena and I worked out the high level software diagram for our system. We thought about the sequence of calculations, from using the machine learning model for inference to calculating the distance between the robot and target with the lidar camera to sending angle and distance commands. We Read more…