This week, I collected much more data to test our detection algorithms on by recording videos using the camera on the L515 LiDAR and using the thermal camera (which I was able to connect using the new Lepton breakout board, and confirm is working). Thus the detection subsystem is finally done, in time for our final demo. What remains is testing with full system integration. This is likely to go smoothly as the data that we have collected and tested the detection algorithms on up to this point have been very similar, and in the exact form that the robot will be seeing in its environment when it is deployed.
Andy Li, Jeremy Kovacs, and Soren Dupont