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).In the past week, I created the majority of slides and wrote the script for our final presentation – this included conducting some validations such as battery life calculations. I also spent a few hours creating cue cards and practicing.In terms of advancing the project, I spent a lot of time deploying, testing, and tuning the search algorithm on the actual Hexapods. Testing on physical hardware has taken longer than anticipated. Furthermore, I suspect that the performance requirements from running both YoloV8 and VSLAM is causing too much resource depletion and overheating, where the Jetson encounters a “Out of Frame Resources” error after running the program too many times. We will need to find the root cause of this error and fix it, since it might be a bigger issue in our demo.Is your progress on schedule or behind? If you are behind, what actions will be taken to catch up to the project schedule?We are still quite behind schedule unfortunately, as we need to finish integrating the robot (though we have performed most of the component-wise validations already). We only need to finish fine tuning the search algorithm and add communications, however there might be many roadbumps (ie. the “Out of Frame Resources” error). Our team is prepared to dedicate the next several days on completing the project before our demo.What deliverables do you hope to complete in the next week?We have an early demo on Wednesday, so we are planning to finish our integrated robot by Monday ideally. This will involve solving the error caused by running VSLAM and Yolov8 together. If we are still unable to resolve this by early Monday, we may have to pivot off VSLAM and simply just hardcode turns and movements.
