Shrutika’s Status Report for 04/04

This week we made a lot of progress on manual mode – Neeti was working on the gesture classifier and training the models, and I worked on creating the simulation and figuring out how we can hook it up to output from the sensors. Matlab is kind of weird and their 3d World Editor is not very well documented. I have been able to receive external output (right now just from my keyboard keys) and pass that to Simulink, and I have been able to create something that looks like what our device would have looked like and made it rotate – but still working on how to connect those two parts.

I think we’re still on track to get manual working by Wednesday if we work hard this week – we plan on working for a while tomorrow to hopefully be able to test the gestures with the cameras I have. I think it is a good idea to start looking at the microphones this week as well – I have a ‘lab bench’ set up in my house in an area that no one will touch that I plan on setting up and testing the microphones.

We have the work split up pretty well right now, so I think as long as we continue to all work we’re on track to finish by the end of the semester.