This week’s tasks:
- Worked on the design report, largely focusing on the FPGA-related and testing sections; however, writing and editing were collaborative and done synchronously.
- Sent an email to AMD’s Andrew Schmidt as a follow-up to our meeting last Wednesday. I explained the main ideas of our project as they relate to what we plan to do on the KV260 and listed our concerns, some of which include whether meeting our target frame rate is feasible, fitting the model onto the FPGA, and advice on how to implement the kinematics portion on the FPGA.
Schedule:
I’m still on schedule, though next week I will have to make a lot of progress towards the CV and FPGA integration. I was unable to write a rough draft version of the Python kinematics code using the Vitis AI API as I planned last week as the design report took up the 12 hours I allotted towards capstone.
Next week’s deliverables:
In order to stay on schedule, though ambitious, I plan to work closely with Shaye to finish putting the MediaPipe pose detection model onto the FPGA and write a rough draft of the kinematics code. These plans might change depending on the advice we receive from Andrew.