This week, we mainly focused on finishing our design presentation which includes our new block diagram, risk factors, use cases, and physical design diagram in addition to our previous outline. We also changed our design slightly to incorporate two motors (one for the arm up/down and one for spinning back to the basket) and are preparing to order our finalized parts.
Individually, we also made progress on finishing the CAD model for the entire robot and localization familiarity for a simulated robot within ROS. Additionally, we also tested OpenCV’s color detection methods on game cartridge stock images and learnt Gazebo.
Next week we hope to finalize our orders and give our design presentation.