Category: Tedd’s Status Reports

This week I worked on getting a visible plot from depth coordinates provided by the Intel Realsense. With my preliminary python script, I was able to run OpenCV and matplotlib to get a pretty good output of which pins should be actuated and the distances that each pin should be actuated. Here are a few examples below:

As you can see, the depth camera was pretty accurate and is able to capture simple objects and display them pixelated on a plot. However, I realized that more complex objects like faces are not well translated onto the plot. I might have to fix up the resolution of the depth camera and see if that could help us get better results. For now, this is a preliminary script and it seems to be working well. I will automate this process in the future as well.

 

This week, we made sure to get the design presentation down. We broke down the design presentation into different parts, and for the presentation, I took the use-case requirements and the testing and verification portion. We also took feedback from other groups from our proposal presentation, and realized that we need to add more numbers and be more thorough in our explanation. This week I also looked into the Intel Realsense, but realized that it is not fully compatible with Macs. So I will be waiting for the Oak-d Pro to be lent to us as it is fully compatible with Macs.

This week, I looked at the various computer vision libraries that were compatible with our project. I am not sure which depth camera we will be using, so I am assuming that we will be using the Intel Realsense camera. Right now, we are tasked to work on the design of our product, which means that we will need to look over all our design choices for the gantry and the actuators. I looked into which computer vision libraries may be useful for our project, which will include the height map as well. Right now I think we are right on schedule.