Lucky’s Status Report for April 30, 2022

This week I did the following tasks:

• Integrated motion and object detection for live testing
  • Completed a function live setup
    • Used a webcam rather than raspberry pi uno to ensure functionality prior to dealing with increased complexity of raspberry pi
      • Use of single webcam to test out the pivot we recently decided which was to use a single camera for both motion and item detection
    • Physical parameters of setup
      • Camera placed 5 ft away from front of shelf and 3 ft above the found
      • Items Tested:
        • protein powder, quick oats, empty milk container, cereal, chia seeds, peanut butter, brownie mix, tuna, ziploc box, vegetable oil, paper towels
    • Recorded a video clip of the testing, and incorporated that into our final presentation
      • System was able to detect motion
      • Finite state control mechanism functioned properly to trigger the object detection
      • Object detection worked accurately – presence detection and bounding boxes were correct – for all of the items except the following:
        • empty milk, vegetable oil
• Continued working on the video script
• Worked on the project poster

In terms of schedule, I feel my biggest worry is setting up the wireless system with the raspberry pi’s and integrating control and file transfer with the website

What Next

• Establish working system with wireless raspberry pi camera setup
• Establish file transfer and control a.k.a. functional integration between raspberry pi and website