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?
The most significant risk that we have identified right now that could jeopardize the success of the project is if the machine learning turns out to be highly inaccurate or insufficiently performant. To manage this risk, we identified ways to perform the gesture detection using basic time series analysis and a decision tree which will be much faster because it doesn’t depend on a deep neural network and can even be implemented directly on the edge. This gesture detection would simply examine trends (increasing/decreasing) of the different sensor data and match them with the corresponding gestures we identified.
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?
None since last week.
Provide an updated schedule if changes have occurred
The schedule was updated to account for the design report and to shorten the amount of time allocated for smaller tasks such as soldering the circuit.
Team work adjustments
We did not make any reassignments to our list of tasks yet since it currently seems well-balanced. However, we adjusted our schedule to make more of our tasks happen in parallel when they weren’t dependent on each other and also give us more time this week to focus on the design report which we did not originally account for in our schedule.