The most significant risk of hardware delays has already occurred, due to the chassis we bought not coming with any encoders, and not easily being able to be fitted with encoders. The encoders are needed for running SLAM. Because we worked our design to be under budget, we have enough room to tolerate these setbacks and are currently researching alternative robot chassis.
We have not made any new changes to the system design yet, and adjusted the first-robot-assembly timeline to reflect the setbacks and be more realistic.
Carnegie Mellon ECE Capstone, Fall 2026: Zhuoyi Zou, Rachel Lewis, Kevin Huang