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 Read more…
Over this past week (and the last few days of spring break), I have many updates. I was successfully able to complete training of the YOLOv7-tiny model and ended with great results! The below charts summarize the training, validation, and 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 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. Read more…
These past weeks, I spent quite a bit of my time creating my own custom dataset, both by taking pictures in the real world and by Frankenstein-ing existing datasets together to make one big dataset. This dataset can be found 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 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 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 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 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 Read more…