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Shanel’s Status Report 2/29

Shanel’s Status Report 2/29

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At the beginning of the week I really thought we were behind, especially because we spent the last week prioritizing the design document and presentation. However, our team benefited from work sessions outside of designated course time on Friday and the weekend. By Wednesday, we had received all our parts and collected design feedback from the presentations. As a result of the design feedback, we made two major design changes to the project: Add ultrasonic sensors to be able to…

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Shanel’s Status Update for 2/23

Shanel’s Status Update for 2/23

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This week we were able to pick up parts and begin testing out the RPLidar A1. I also continued working on the design report.   Because of the discussion on Monday, we missed time to work on our project during the allocated course time. I think we will have to start working more hours on our own outside of the official class times. This means we’ll have to strategically plan syncs and checkpoints for the time we have together

Team Status Update for 02/15/20

Team Status Update for 02/15/20

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We started our week by reflecting on the proposal presentation and feedback. It was clear to us that we need to refine our requirements based off of the target user experience, rather than the specs of each individual component. There was also some confusion over the scope of the project, so we’ll need to make this clearer next time in the design presentation.  After the first proposal presentation, our group had some concerns about the processing power needed to run SLAM,…

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Shanel’s Status Update for 02/15/2020

Shanel’s Status Update for 02/15/2020

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I spent most of my time this week working on the design report and presentation. After looking through some reports from previous semesters, I created a rough outline in which the team and divide and flesh out each of our respective focus areas. I researched some previous projects using Tesseract, an open source OCR (optical character recognition) program. Although this program is widely support and has seen pretty good success with reading text from signs and paper, I am a…

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Introduction and Project Summary

Introduction and Project Summary

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Google Maps lacks accurate and comprehensive indoor positioning information. Businesses and establishments that upload their own floor plans are able to show specific details on indoor locations. However, most buildings do not have this information available online, making it difficult for visitors to navigate indoors.   The Robotic Indoor Plotting project will autonomously generate indoor floor plans, while labeling room descriptors and dimensions. When placed indoors, the robot will explore the space, creating a 2D map using built-in obstacle detection…

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