This week we worked with TA Samuel to come up with multiple options for our ML model which was detecting everything as trash. The options are listed in our team status report. As of right now, we are choosing the path of combining the old drinkables dataset into the new trashnet dataset. We are cleaning up the dataset, replacing the plastics in trashnet with the old dataset. This is because according to Pittsburgh recycling rules only bottles without caps can be recycled but this isn’t reflected in the new dataset. Over the weekend I will work on cleaning up the datasets so that next week we can train. If we can get this option to work early next week we will be ok, but otherwise we will be behind schedule.
The mechanics are on track to be finished, we just have to install the side lock servos and redo some of the legs. Vasudha and I cut the wood for the backboard and screwed it into the frame with the main servo. The frame of the whole system is now integrated together and we can test with the jetson. We discovered that angle brackets are needed on the legs and everything else we screw at a 90 degree angle because the legs started to warp in on itself. Next week we will work on these adjustments and finish up servo locks, and the mechanics will be finished.