Carnegie Mellon ECE Capstone, Spring 2020: Ashika K, Abha A, Jade T
On Monday, I fixed a couple issues with the CAD of the body frame. I’ve also started the CAD for the head frame and figuring out how to redo the arms now that I don’t have access to a 3d printer. Initially, my plans involved …
On Monday I cleaned up my audio input/output code in order to work with Ashika on integration. I turned my code into easy to call modules, documented it, and documented all the installs needed to run it. I also started writing code that will setup …
This week I accomplished the following tasks: Grammar correction for verbs. I still need to do this for singular vs plural nouns, but it is working very well for verbs. User response processing for non-story states. All user responses are supported, including timeouts and words …
What we did Jade and Ashika worked on integrating the storytelling program with the audio input/output on laptops. Abha started building a cardboard prototype of the robot frame and started working on the eye displays. Risk Management As we mentioned in our statement of work, …
The first part of the week was spent on figuring out how to deal with the coronavirus changes, since that majorly affected my part of the project. Since things were changing every day (wrt CMU, Techspark, where I would be, etc), it took me a …
This week I worked on getting the simple fill in the blank interface working on the Raspberry Pi. I have the audio input portion working, however have not got the audio output portion working. This is mostly because I have been having trouble figuring out …
The events this week did not affect the software side too much. The whole system latency requirement has been scrapped, but that is mostly due to integration problems. For the software component, I actually managed to get the program running faster after switching to using …
The major change to our design is that we will now be constructing our robot with common household materials, such as cardboard and wood. This is because Techspark has shut down and we no longer have access to laser cutters, which we needed to construct …
During the earlier parts of this week I worked on writing the design report. After the design report was submitted, I talked with Ashika to figure out how the ML algorithm would output dialog to the text to speech portion of KATbot. I then worked …
We have no changes to the existing design, and are currently on schedule. First, we worked together to finish the design report. Then, we split off to work on our individual tasks. Ashika started the user interface program, which integrates user error detection, synonym generation, …