This week, I helped to narrow down the scope of our project and further develop our project. Specifically, I researched potential sensors that we could use in the case that our classifier was not accurate enough. We ended up choosing an IR and inductive sensor that were mentioned in a garbage segregation research paper that I had found. I also helped to finalize our mechanism and modify our proposal presentation slides due this weekend .
Our project is still on-schedule. During the week, we had to schedule extra meetings with our professor and TA to address some problems with our idea, but we have now resolved all of those issues.
Next week, I plan to start the design process including finalizing budget, making preliminary sketches of the mechanism, and beginning to prepare for our design presentation in two weeks.
Some resources for sensors:
https://lillych.in/files/Chin-2019-icra.pdf
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/1007/1/012057/pdf