Team Status Report for 04/08/2023

We believe that the current most significant risk that could jeopardize the success of the project is that we are still working on integrating the hardware and software parts which means performance and accuracy are still our main concerns because we aren’t sure what the current results are if we run the algorithm on the Jetson Nano. However, given how much progress we were able to make, we believe that our work is achievable within this upcoming week. We are managing these risks by putting more hours of work into our team meetings to make sure we’ll speed up our progress and meet our goals quickly to leave room for any risk mitigation. Currently, the contingency plan is that we use a mp4 video to work on the software side while waiting for the other team member to figure out the hardware side. Once that is resolved, the next step is to ensure the software side works well with the Jetson Nano and the live video footage captured by the camera.

To answer the week-specific question, we are planning to set up the camera in the lab and test the whole system with live video footages captured in the lab since the environment in the lab is similar to the environment where we’ll showcase our final demo. Our output result is very straightfoward, which is simply wait time at any given point. We’ll compare them directly against the actual result we record using a timer on our phone to calculate the margin of error to evaluate the accuracy. In order to evaluate the performance, we can simply set up timer directly within the code and have it automatically calculated for us how fast the algorithm runs.

There were no changes to the existing design of the system and hence no additional costs were incurred.

Here’s our current schedule.