This week I worked closely with my teammates to ensure that the gantry system, a critical component of our design, became fully operational. Together, we collaborated to identify and address mechanical and software-related issues that were hindering its performance. By developing and fine-tuning the gantry control code, we achieved smooth and precise movement, ensuring the charging pad can accurately align with the detected device’s position.
(The problem is the deformation of this 3d part, which makes the belt hard to rotate smoothly)
On the vision system front, I successfully deployed our object detection software onto the Raspberry Pi. During the deployment process, I noticed that the original code caused high latency when running on the Pi’s constrained hardware resources. To address this, I reviewed and optimized the code, making key modifications that significantly improved its efficiency and performance. These changes have resulted in faster detection and response times, which are critical for seamless interaction with the gantry system.
The final step this week involved integrating the software and hardware subsystems to evaluate the entire system’s functionality. I conducted extensive testing, including a comprehensive suite of unit tests to ensure the individual components were functioning correctly and integration tests to validate the interaction between subsystems. These tests demonstrated promising results, with the system operating effectively and meeting our performance expectations.
I am currently on schedule. there isn’t many specific tasks left for next week, since we have done most of them. Therefore, for next week, I am going to focus on testing, and resolve some minor issues for system integration.