I spent the beginning of this week looking at some of the OpenCV modules that could be useful in our project. I found that OpenCV has a couple of algorithms that can be used for edge detection, the most popular one using the Canny edge detection algorithm. I started writing some testing code to see what input and outputs the function takes. I spent the rest of the week preparing for a surgery and recovering.
I expect to spend some time next week continuing to recover from surgery and hopefully continue my testing with OpenCV and our obstacle detection portion of the project.