What did you personally accomplish this week on the project? Give files or
photos that demonstrate your progress. Prove to the reader that you put sufficient effort into the project over the course of the week (12+ hours).
This week, I worked on materials for the mounting system and symbol detection. At first, I was thinking of having part of it be plywood so we could get the material easier, but found 6 mm acrylic in the scrap bin that we can use. I then chose an adhesive that I think will work a lot better than what I tried last time, because it fell apart very easily in the last prototype.
I have been running into a lot of issues with symbols detection, but decided to make my own Haas Cascade again. There are a lot of hard things about this, and I have to find a lot of workarounds for any existing tutorials so this has been pretty time intensive. One issue is just collecting negative images to train the cascade. It seems like there are a lot stricter permissions on huge datasets of images, which makes sense for privacy reasons, but has made my life very difficult. However, I finally found one that worked and was able to create a large directory of negative images. I was then finally able to produce the file I needed for the detection, but it is detecting the symbol very poorly so I am working on trouble shooting that.
Is your progress on schedule or behind? If you are behind, what actions will be
taken to catch up to the project schedule?
Nope!
What deliverables do you hope to complete in the next week?
Tomorrow, I am going to laser cut the mounting system and put it together. The rest of the week, I am going to work on getting symbol detection working well enough to be used.