The past week, I have been working on testing out the overall system. This includes running the calibration system then running the program that follows the head movement. Testing the overall system helped us find some bugs in our system and intuition as to how to fix the bugs. In particular, we found the “user offset” and “user wall-to-distance” to be incorrect at times. We are currently working on resolving this issue.
When we were testing the overall system, we found the motor to move in an annoying fashion when we moved our head only slightly. This makes sense, since we did not add the ‘threshold’ in yet to prevent movement with small head movements. I am currently working on fixing the CV program to deal with these small thresholds by averaging the past 5 head pose estimations. I also got a new camera to add into the system that should work in dim lighting. My goal over the next week is to continue to test the overall system and tweak it to ensure it offers a clean user experience. We also plan to edit and run the user survey next weekend when the new motor gets delivered.