This week, our team mainly worked together on preparing for the Design Presentation and writing the Design Document.
Currently, the most significant risk that could jeopardize the success of the project is that we ordered our project components later than we planned to. This means that the parts would come later than expected and we would have less time to assemble all the parts together and test the components we ordered. This is a risk factor because we need to make sure that the Line Laser Diode we ordered has enough light intensity and our camera can capture that for our algorithm to work. If not, we would need to order a different laser. Another consequence here is that we are uncertain of the step driver and NVIDIA Jetson integration, so getting the component later means we get to test them together even later. We are managing these risks by adjusting our schedule. We moved up other tasks that could be worked on without the project components such as finding ground-truth, writing code to filter and triangulate point cloud data, and writing testing benchmarks to work on while we are waiting for the project components.
There were no major changes made to the existing design of the system this week (we will be running with the design that comprises of a laser line projection combined with a camera to scan the object using a rotating platform).
This is the link to our updated schedule: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GGzn30sgRvBdlpad1TIZRK-Fq__RTBgIKN7kDVB3IlI/edit?usp=sharing