At the beginning of the week, I spent time testing the CV to make sure that the depth values were accurate. Miles and I then put the CV on the pi. After this, I started focusing on building the robot. I helped drill and assemble the base onto our robot, ensuring our launcher can now be mounted on its base.
We are still behind schedule, but we made good progress and are catching up to where we need to be. We still have a lot to do, especially in terms of interfacing, but with our Motor Control board and our robot structure nearly fully built besides the ball feeder, we should be able to get a lot done over the next week.
Throughout this project, I was tasked with learning how to work with CV. As a result, I ended up having to learn about multiple CV algorithms and learned how to use OpenCV and DepthAI. Before I pivoted to helping with the physical build, I was also learning how to train custom neural networks for depthAI when I was attempting to work on pose estimation. Since I have never worked with a CV of any kind or worked with an AI library, there were a lot of issues I ran into, especially with CMake, as the majority of the semester, I was writing my code in C.