This past week we worked on our design presentation together. We received many of the parts we will be using, such as the Xbox Kinect, the Ultra96-v1 (temporary FPGA), and the robotic arm. On Thursday, we met to assemble and test out the robot arm. We assembled it together, and Chris was able to power on the arm and issue basic commands to it. During the meeting, I was also setting up the Vitis HLS environment.
Development on the simulation environment has paused, but we plan on meeting tomorrow to assess where we are at and where we need to make progress. Because of this, we are slightly behind schedule.
This upcoming week, we plan on making lots of progress on the simulation environment, hopefully having our baseline implementation of RRT running. We will also work on the design report together, which has already been shared with each of us as an Overleaf document.