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CSM/Perception Integration & Cleaner Benchmarking My work this week was centered around preparing my CSM codebase for the demo, changing my timeline based on feedback from the Professor, and taking measure to prepare for integrating Perception into the CSM framework. First, in anticipation for the demo, I had to organize my Read more…
I think the demo this week went fairly well. Bolaji made me realize that my current design for the PCB is fairly inefficient. It burns at least 26W of power unnecessarily. I’ll be exploring other options for something more efficient. The mechanical aspect of the project are coming along though. Read more…
Demo 1 and Multi-threading Frame Reads This week, for our first demo, I showed object detection working on live camera feed at a rate of about 10 FPS and object tracking working on a pre-recorded video of me skateboarding which ran at about 15 FPS. These FPS numbers are concerning, Read more…
This week I have gotten back on track with making progress on this project. I have 3D printed the dynamic components(image included) of this project and will be measuring the signal delay of the motors before the update on Wednesday. I have also began designing the battery manager and servo Read more…
CSM Updates for Demo1, Benchmarking, & Professor Feedback This week, I worked on improving the basic foundations for the CSM laid from the previous week by preparing for Demo1, setting up means to start benchmarking performance, and acting on feedback from the Professor. In the previous meeting with our Professor Read more…
Preparing for Demo 1 This week, the team mainly focused on finalizing a big portion of each individual subcomponent in order to demo it the following week. Ike is in the process of finishing a first draft of the CSM, in which different subcomponents are running concurrently and are simulating Read more…
Tracking Objects! This week, I mainly focused on finalizing the perception pipeline. This work involved installing the OpenCV contrib library on the Nano (surprisingly complicated actually) and making use of OpenCV’s various object tracking implementations to evaluate their performance on the Jetson Nano. Of all the different tracking methods that Read more…
Central System Manager This week, I built the first prototype of the central system manager! As mentioned in a previous status update, I programmed the CSM using Python, a language not typically selected for multithreading purposes, open access to a wider array of GPIO libraries that would have been used Read more…
This week I focused on the moving mechanical part. I was able to find a pan and tilt system that fits our chosen motors and should be able to meet our requirements. I will be 3D printing and testing it over the course of the next week to prove the Read more…
This week we came to the realization that e are a week behind the previous schedule as a result of all the changes due to COVID19. Since then we have discussed what has changed in our goals and how we will accomplish these goals. We have decided to develop this Read more…