During the week of 03/14-03/20, I worked rather extensively on the design report with my teammates. My sections included the Abstract, Introduction, Architecture Overview, and sections of the Design Trade Studies. I also spent time proofreading the report and editing the figures that we would include within it. During this week, I have spent time working on the Jetson to get it ready for my teammates to start integrating their algorithms and testing on the Jetson. Using NVIDIA’s startup guide, I did the first boot of the Jetson by writing the image onto the microSD that we purchased and configuring the Jetson. I also installed dlib on the Jetson, which we will be using for our project. Following this, I used the youtube video listed below to write a python script that would configure the Raspberry Pi V2 Camera Module with GStreamer to work on the Jetson. I ran into some issues with initially running the script because of an assertion failure, but after diagnosing the problem — I plugged in the camera while the Jetson was on — I was able to get the camera to start working. I am currently working on creating a static IP for the Jetson using the source below that will allow us to SSH into the Jetson and work on it that way.
I would say that my progress is on schedule. Following our conversations with Professor Mukherjee during our meeting on Monday, he suggested that we hold off on doing the custom datasets until we have our algorithms working at about 80%, because we may not need the extra data and do not want to waste time. We have readjusted our Gantt chart as a result of this, and I am focusing more on the integration currently as shown from my work above.
In the next day, I will have the static IP set up. During the week, I will be working on helping my teammates with integration. I will also work on the focus timer algorithm so we can integrate that with the other algorithms.
Sources:
- https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded/learn/get-started-jetson-xavier-nx-devkit#write
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKailP4zKRw
- https://f1tenth.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting_started/software_setup/optional_software_nx.html#configuring-wifi-and-ssh