WORK ACCOMPLISHED:
This week was focused on creating the final presentation, unit testing the blindspot detection system, and testing of our overall system.
I ran 50+ tests this week with the doppler radar sensor to measure it’s field of view and accuracy. Through testing I noticed the orientation of the sensor played a large part in how accurate the distance detection was so I removed the sensor from our encasing and changed the orientation. Also, the sensor had no false positives as it never detected an object that wasn’t there. Lastly, since the sensors FOV is so limited it’s best for our device to be attached slightly angled towards the left hand side of the user to get a better view of incoming objects as people usually take a wider angle when passing bicyclists and don’t come up directly behind them.
For our overall system testing , I spent a few hours this week riding a bike with Rid3 to collect data. I also simulated certain scenarios with my car or on another bike while my teammates were riding a bike with Rid3. Various kinks arose with testing off campus that we had to resolve through out the week. One of our biggest setback was the bike mount piece broke while we were testing. The device fell and our encasing broke so I took time this week to put it back together and reprint a sturdier mount. This was an inadvertent strength test of our encasing as our device held up pretty well and there were no cracks in the encasing, we only had to attach the sides back together.
PROGRESS:
I’ve completed all my tasks on our gantt chart and made solid progress this week.
NEXT WEEK’S DELIVERABLES:
Next week I’m focusing on visualizing the data I collected along with creating the final poster, report, and demo video.
