The Group

• What are the most significant risks that could jeopardize the success of the project? How are these risks being managed? What contingency plans are ready?
  • The walker/runner’s movement is to violent for the sensors to gain accurate readings:
    • We are working on a more secure way to mount the sensors, pi, and battery pack to the user. We are looking at a more secure lightweight chest harness design for the sensors that maximizes stability. Then a waist harness, for the heavier parts, that maximizes comfort and weight distribution for the user. The ultimate contingency is to limit our scope to walkers to reduce the noise due to movement
  • The proposed ultra-sonic solution may not work (for reason including: material of target, poor range, field of view too narrow, or information too noisy with the movement of the wearer)
    • We have many solutions we are working on to deal with these problems, like fitting only sensors to a tight harness, researching better sensors including lidar and ir sensors if initial tests with ultrasonic prove it unusable. Our ultimate contingency is too fall back onto the camera sensor and rely solely on image processing for detection.

 

• Currently, there were no significant changes to our design. We are in the first stages of the refinement phase of our design process and we are waiting for first shipment of parts, to test there abilities before we make such changes. We have ideas for changes in place, but we are holding off on making them right now
• Currently, the schedule remains the same.