Carnegie Mellon ECE Capstone, Spring 2020: Ashika K, Abha A, Jade T
At the start of the week, apart from presenting on Monday, I finished getting the story cohesion data and adding them to the final presentation and final report: Variable Random Input Stories User Generated Stories Original Stories Logical Sense 1.6 4.0 8.4 Theme 5.0 6.13 …
This week, I worked on collecting data for story cohesion and user satisfaction. I had my family members fill in templated stories and then gave them to Ashika, who used them to determine story cohesion relative to random stories and the original Aesop’s fables. I …
This week we worked on finalizing our presentation which Ashika presented on Monday. In the middle of the week we all worked on updating our design report to reflect changes in the design and descriptions of our final project. At the end of the week …
This week I worked on getting audio latency metrics for our presentation on Monday as well as working on updating our paper and recording segments for our final demo video. On Sunday I realized I had to remeasure system latency because I realized that because …
This week, I mostly worked on assembling the robot. I also helped Jade collect data for speech recognition accuracy. First, I assembled the head and body of the robot. I put all of the electronics inside them and made sure everything still worked. One minor …
This week, I worked on testing all the storytelling components of KATbot to see if they meet our metrics. For the part of speech testing, I created a python testing script to check the accuracy, with both correct and incorrect inputs, of the part of …
On Monday I just tested our code before the demo we had and participated in the demo. On Wednesday I wrote testing code to measure speech recognition accuracy. The code pulled random words from the thousand most common English words and then prompted the user …
This week, Jade and Ashika focused on testing the audio and storytelling components respectively. They also cleaned up minor bugs in the software as they went. Abha continued to work on assembling the robot. Everyone worked on creating the final presentation for next week. There …
On Monday, I set up the face display and got code working on it to draw shapes and lines. This was a precursor so that I could debug issues with drawing shapes on a canvas before creating the actual face. On Wednesday, I worked with …
This week, I mainly focused on tying up loose ends and helping the others with integration. As mentioned in the team status report, I modified the program to output the entire story once it is finished with all the new words bolded so users can …