Carnegie Mellon ECE Capstone, Spring 2020: Ashika K, Abha A, Jade T
I spent the first part of this week editing and formatting the design report. Once that was finished, I started creating a user program for the storytelling algorithm. The user interface is command line at the moment, and this is how the program works: Program …
The first part of my week was spent working on the design report. After that, since the SD cards had come in, I set up a Raspberry Pi with Jade’s help. Then I worked on setting up the display for the text. Although I didn’t …
This week I primarily spent time working on our design presentation. I created a new system diagram for us to use which is displayed below. I also spent a decent amount of time practicing for the presentation. As for what I’ve accomplished regarding the project, …
This week, I focused on working on the design presentation/report and CADing the robot arm and body. I had a rough CAD for the presentation done. However, there were a few issues with that design as I didn’t have time to finalize it before the …
We have no significant changes to our schedule and the risks of our project mostly have remained the same. This week, we worked on the design presentation and report, as well as our individual tasks. For the design submissions, we created a new system architecture …
This week, I focused on two aspects of the project. First, I finished up the storytelling portion of the design report. I already finished ironing out the details and conducting research on the metrics and validation prior to the design presentation, but I edited the …
The first thing I did this week was work with Jade to determine the communication protocols between all of the hardware in this project. After we determined them, I created the system architecture diagram for our design report/presentation and for future reference. This week, my …
This week I investigated many different text to speech packages. I evaluated TTS packages on ease of install and use, whether the TTS required internet connection, and the quality of the voice. A lot of the text to speech packages had robotic or choppy voices, …
We have no changes to the existing design, and are currently on schedule. We have been deep diving into figuring out how specifically we will be implementing our requirements as well as working on our design report and presentation. We finalized the communication protocols we …
This week, I started writing the code for story creation. I wrote two python programs: the first checks that the part of speech of a word matches the expected part of speech given a sentence for context. This will be used for error detection on …