What are the most significant risks that could jeopardize the success of the project? How are these risks being managed? What contingency plans are ready?
The most significant risk to our project is getting the machine learning model to run at a speed that’s close enough to real-time speed. To do this we plan on making sure that we make a thorough analysis of the speed and accuracy tradeoffs until we reach the most optimal point of performance in the balance between the two. On another note, I next greatest risk is the failure of the gantry system to move fast enough to handle various objects moving along the conveyor belt. A contingency plan is that we’ll have a speed control feature on the web app to slow down the speed in the case that there are too many objects being passed through the conveyor belt for sorting. This would allow our robot to have enough time to sort all of the items being passed through without having to skip any.
Were any changes made to the existing design of the system (requirements, block diagram, system spec, etc)? Why was this change necessary, what costs does the change incur, and how will these costs be mitigated going forward?
There are no current changes made to the existing design of the system.
Provide an updated schedule if changes have occurred.
There are no schedule changes as of now.