Risk and Risk Management
One risk that we have is related to 3D printing the parts. We know the entire process of printing will take 9 hours, but it will likely be a couple days before we actually receive the parts we want. We also don’t (as of now) know the cost of the order (we recently requested a quote). If it goes over budget, we might have to eliminate some of the parts we want. However, only a couple pieces are central to the functioning of our project, so in the case it’s not affordable, we’ll at least try to maintain those pieces (e.g. the ‘gear’ that holds onto the blinds’ beaded cord lock). In the meantime, however, everyone is working in parallel on their own portions.
Other risks include that the depth sensor of the D455’s depth sensor resolution isn’t as high as expected. From what has been seen, it is closer to 848×480 as opposed to the 1280×720 that was expected (listed on their website); this may affect the accuracy results of the User Position Extraction. Another risk is the possibility that our LAOE algorithm might not work as accurate as expected, since we have only tested it on very little data so far. We hope to do more testing in the future regarding the accuracies of these algorithms.
System Design Changes
As of now there hasn’t been a change to the existing design of the system.
Schedule
The schedule has not changed yet, and everyone is roughly on track for the time being.