This week, I spent most of my time working on building a robot base with Hirani, ordering additional parts, and researching Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). During building sessions, we cut aluminium extrusions from metal shop at TechSpark after finalizing dimensions of our robot. Then, we waited a few days Read more…
This past week, I placed a significant focus on the construction of the robot. We had most of the materials (extrusions & acrylic boards) by the beginning of the week; however, we had to order new connectors which took a bit longer to come in. Regardless, we finished constructing the Read more…
One of the risks that we are concerned about is the integration of the ROS packages we are using. As we have not used ROS before, we are a bit concerned about how well different ROS packages/ components work together. We are considering running part of the path-planning algorithm on Read more…
From February 25th to March 9th, I’ve completed a number of tasks so that I could be prepared to build the robot after the spring break. First, I’ve created a CAD model of our robot. This will be the guidance to building our robot base and was added as figures Read more…
Last week, I primarily worked on finalizing the design sketch, sourcing materials, defining connections for the raspberry pi, researching ROS, and the design review report. Although we discussed the design sketch and finalized the dimensions the previous week during the design review, a lot more thought was needed in terms Read more…
The most significant risks which could jeopardize the success of the project are in regards to completing the build of the robot base in time and overall integration testing. To manage these risks, we delegated a week to sourcing materials and ordered parts as soon as we could. For integration, Read more…
For this week, we had a design review presentation on Monday and Wednesday. Due to the absence of work sessions within classes, we had this week to be somewhat flexible for the parts ordered to come and identify any potential issues with Jetson Nano and robot base designs. My original Read more…
The most significant risks right now are difficulties in collecting materials for our build base and missing parts necessary to effectively use the Jetson Nano Orin. To mitigate these risks, we plan to dedicate next week to sourcing materials from RoboClub and any additional items that need to be ordered. Read more…
This past week, I have been working on setting up ROS on the Raspberry PI. I have also been working on learning ROS and defining motion requirements for the robot. This Monday, I delivered our team’s design review presentation. Overall, I was able to present the major design decisions we Read more…
The most significant risk right now is the usage of tiny Yolo V7. According to MATOM Ai, although tiny Yolo model processes faster and lightweight, it is less accurate than Yolo V7 (MATOM Ai, 2022). This means it can give us more false positives, which is a critical component to Read more…