This week I did more research into the physics simulation portion of our project. I’ve found some Github codebases + research papers/videos that should be beneficial to our algorithm. I also went to the UC basement to play pool with Luke so we could have a benchmark of how many shots it takes us to finish a game of 9-ball. We played three games and averaged around 40-50 shots. We will use this benchmark as a comparison and will hopefully see a decrease in shots taken when we use DeepCue as help.
Additionally, I took some time to make a block diagram of our project for our design presentation. We’ve made a pretty significant change to our project in that we have decided to remove the Nvidia Jetson and instead directly connect the camera/lidar to a computer. So I updated our block diagram + Gantt chart to reflect these changes. I am still on schedule and plan on working on the physics simulation this week. I will have to coordinate with Luke as he will now be helping with the physics simulation since we aren’t using the Jetson anymore. Additionally, we will conduct more benchmark testing with the smaller pool table that we just ordered.