Enock’s Status Report 05/01/2021

This week has been the final stretch in implementing the final software subsystem of our project. We were able to move all of the hardware from the ECE lab testbench onto a cart. We strapped down everything so that the wires and components don’t move around and disturb the signals traveling. In addition to this, we decided to do the process of data collection and overlaying on the laptop as we have been doing. However, in the past we were using 2 laptops, my laptop to collect the SDR data and send it over UDP and Vrishab’s laptop to receive the data to do the beamforming algorithm. This was all done for testing and so would be inconvenient for the actual final product and so Txanton and I worked on integrating the two software scripts into one so that it could be configured to work solely on mine. Throughout the week we worked on doing test runs to get lobe width, we tested to see that the box in the middle could respond to different signal strengths at different distances.