This week, I prepared and gave the design presentation. I also reviewed our design to make some changes before the presentation. Specifically, I planned out the removal of the tilting function after determining that the design we had in place wouldn’t function, exploring other designs, and determining that there was no solution where we either got a series of motors that would push our budget, or compromise the predictability of the flight of the ball post launch. Since tilting was not necessary and would strain our budget, we decided to remove it. For the design Report, I started finalizing the solution approach and have added and expanded upon the tests and testing metrics.
I have not made much progress with the CV, other than deciding to use a HOG(Histogram of Oriented Gradients) and SVM (Support Vector Machine) in order to identify a person, and using depthAI (the depth perception library that pairs with the OAKD camera) for our depth perception. I have a few decisions to make about my code. The algorithm I plan on using normally suggests a resize for faster processing; however, I am hesitant to do so, as I am unaware of how I’m meant to draw depth information out of the depthAI. My concern is being unable to locate where exactly a person is on a depth map, since the image being processed by my CV would not be the same. Because of this, I had to put a pause on my CV code until I figure out how the OpenCV and DepthAI libraries will interact.