What are the most significant risks that could jeopardize the success of the
project? How are these risks being managed? What contingency plans are ready?
- Due to multiple significant changes in our proposal and abstract, we are already behind schedule for a whole week. We are working longer hours to compensate for the lost time. No contingency plans is necessary.
- Our initial designs and implementation plans overran the $600 budget rather significantly, requiring multiple raspberry Pis (at least 3 with additional needed for each intersection); We are thinking about paying for the project out of pocket, or/and borrowing equipment from friends for the duration of the course;
Were any changes made to the existing design of the system (requirements, block diagram, system spec, etc)? Why was this change necessary, what costs does the change incur, and how will these costs be mitigated going forward?
We have changed our project idea twice in the last week due to failure to satisfy the course faculty, with the final project idea finally getting approved; The changes caused a significantly delayed schedule and all work being diverted to coming up with a new project idea instead of working on designing the current project.
Since the project idea is now approved, we should not see this kind of issue going forward.
Provide an updated schedule if changes have occurred.
Due to the recent changes in the project, we are still coming up with a new schedule for the current project. A update will be posted soon.
Timeline
- Presented our initial proposal of “Attacking STOP signs with OpenCV and ML adversary model”;
- Proposal refused by Professor Kim and Professor Tamal due to ambiguities in idea and execution;
- Tried to come up with revisions to the “Attacking STOP signs with OpenCV and ML adversary model”, with no progress made in several hours;
- Discussed and tried to come up with a more adequately defined and scoped new proposal — “Smart Parking System with Monitoring and Metering”;
- Wrote new abstract and presentation slides for the new proposal;
- Presented idea to Professor Kim again;
- Took advice from Professor and revised proposal to include new features (“automated parking guidance”);
- Presented idea to Professor Kim again;
- Proposal approved;
- Started to work on design details and implementations of the proposal;
- Pending work on schedule and work division (blocked on implementation detail discussion);