{"id":251,"date":"2020-03-28T15:46:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T15:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s20-teamf2\/?p=251"},"modified":"2020-03-28T16:38:43","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T16:38:43","slug":"seans-status-update-for-03-28-week-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s20-teamf2\/2020\/03\/28\/seans-status-update-for-03-28-week-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean&#8217;s Status Update for 03\/28 (Week 7)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Progress<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>I finally got the Roomba as well as the webcam and connecting cables delivered to me.<\/p>\n<h3>Env-Setup &amp; Data collection<\/h3>\n<p>I set up the environment in my basement, with the webcam covering the corner of the room. I tested basic manipulations (driving, rotating, etc.) and realized the odometry is a bit off. I suspect the carpet floor to be the cause. It is still within the requirement (1-ft error after 10m run) but I might need to add some fine tuning to improve the accuracy. I also was able to collect some video data for other teammates to use.<\/p>\n<h3>Mapping<\/h3>\n<p>Edge following part of the mapping is working fine (with some fine tuning tweaks due to the new environment). Initially, I planned to use multi-goal A* algorithm for mapping. However, it turns out it is unnecessarily complicated for a limited indoor environment. So I am pivoting to lawn-mowing pattern, which works well in a confined space with a few obstacles. The mapping will be done in the early next week.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Deliverables next week<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>I will complete the 2-D mapping with some limited implementation of path-finding.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Schedule<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>On schedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Progress I finally got the Roomba as well as the webcam and connecting cables delivered to me. Env-Setup &amp; Data collection I set up the environment in my basement, with the webcam covering the corner of the room. I tested basic manipulations (driving, rotating, etc.) and realized the odometry is a bit off. I suspect &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s20-teamf2\/2020\/03\/28\/seans-status-update-for-03-28-week-7\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sean&#8217;s Status Update for 03\/28 (Week 7)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,5],"tags":[9,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s20-teamf2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s20-teamf2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s20-teamf2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s20-teamf2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s20-teamf2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s20-teamf2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s20-teamf2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions\/260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s20-teamf2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s20-teamf2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s20-teamf2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}