This week we had our ethics discussion where we were able to get some valuable feedback about some ethical considerations for our project. This will be useful for our final report and gave us some additional perspective for our future work.
Regarding our project, this week we worked on getting the beamforming array to work with 4 SDR’s and antennas. After updating our beamforming pipeline to receive data from all 4 antennas and adjusting the algorithm to use 4 inputs instead of 2, we were able to get an angle of arrival for the signal picked up by the antenna array. We also made progress on the heatmap overlay code and are able to now draw boxes over of the webcam input based on the calculated angle of arrival. This means we have the two subsystems of our project mostly complete and will be able to start integrating them next week.
Next week we will continue working on integrating the two subsystem’s so that the vision pipeline is actually receiving data from the beamforming pipeline instead of the dummy test data. After that all we will have to do is more testing and minor adjustments and then we should be on track to finish our project.