This week, we were able to meet a few times to discuss our progress and what we would need to work more on in the following weeks. Zeyi has been continuing to work on the website and creating that interactive portion of our project. A more detailed explanation can be found in Zeyi’s personal weekly update. Zehong has been focusing on creating the algorithm and user test cases to midigate exceptions to the program. A more detailed explanation can be found…
As I briefly described during the Zoom call on This week I worked on Friday 3/27/2020, I worked on designing the algorithm this week. The following is a more detailed report: I first researched more about traveling salesman problem. After research, I feel like it might not be the most accurate representation of the problem at hand. One thing that TSP does not allow is visiting a node more than once, but my algorithm can visit any node any number…
Done with the basic layout of the first page of user interface with 6 items. It can now add or minus the number of items with the buttons. I will be working on adding an input box to enter the number of items and implement the Submit button’s function (save the item list in the database) for the next step.
After consulting one of my MechE friend, we finalized on the idea of mounting a circular wooden platform over the Roomba. We arrived at this design because the top surface of the original Roomba is not smooth and it is hard to attach anything onto it. The wooden platform will be mounted on using 70mm threaded standoffs and serve as a platform for all other electronic components: the raspberry Pi 3, the range sensor, and the load sensor. Having the…
3/14 The week of Spring break, our team mainly wanted to get the physical components ready and begin the initial phase of creating our physical portion of our project. This week would be the transition between the planning and initial setup. We communicated mainly virtually as most of us were not at the same location during spring break. We also began with setting up our sensor testing. We felt it was important to start working on the physical components of…
This past week we placed the final orders for all our parts, began the initial assembly of the AutoCart system, started interfacing the Raspberry Pi with the line following sensors, and are working on the user inteface that customers will interface with. These are all being done in parallel in order to maximize efficiency. We are striving to have the line following sensor interface and user interface done by the end of spring break in order to start system integration…