Lots of work was done but not a lot of progress this week involving the Jetsons(s). Mae and I worked with Professor Mukherjee for several days to get the Jetson Xavier flashed with Jetpack 5.0, which required us to set Read more…
This week I made a lot of progress with the construction and hardware of the robot. The motor now runs well with the drill battery, 18V to 12V step down, and new Cytron Motor Driver. In the beginning of Read more…
This week I used openCV’s object multitracking with our Realsense livestream to verify that it works. Then, I integrated openCV’s multitracking and distance readings into our pipeline. Our pipeline now consists of inference, then angle calculation to center the robot Read more…
This week we prepared for our interim demos this week to show the hardware and software progress for our robot. On the hardware side, we showed our intake mechanism working with a drill. The intake mechanism works with full sized/fixed Read more…
This week we worked together to prepare for in class demos by polishing up the robot structure and creating a working prototype of our software system. Meghana and I worked on reducing the weight and friction of the robot by Read more…
This week we had demo’s during class. So we started the week by preparing for these demos. We demonstrated the intake mechanism working with a drill and talked more about the construction of the robot and showed our bottle detection Read more…
This week, I spent the majority of my time working with Meghana to construct the robot as a whole, especially prototyping and finalizing the build for the intake mechanism. We were able to fully attach the intake mechanism to the Read more…
In my attempt to get inference to perform faster, I realized that I am not actually using cuda because torch.cuda.is_available() returns false. I was unable to install a version of Pytorch on the Xavier through the terminal. After talking to Read more…
This week we were very productive and have been preparing for the interim demos. We worked more on robot construction and have finished the frame and ramp with the intake attached to the front. We still haven’t found the perfect Read more…
This week I made a lot of progress on the construction of the robot with Serena’s help. We took the robot apart so that we could put the lexan we newly ordered underneath for the water bottle storage area. Before Read more…