I personally worked on completing the design proposal slide deck that I will be presenting on Monday, Feb 16. For the proposal slide deck, I did additional research in order to garner more accurate quantitative measures for our project. For example, I calculated an approximate guess of our size of market based on comparing similar products in the golf industry. I also read and analyzed two research papers of similar projects: paper1 and paper2 which had much relevant information for us. Thanks to these papers and additional research, I have been able to select the algorithms and methods that will allow us to achieve some specific requirements, such as swing type classification accuracy and performance analysis accuracy. Specifically, we will be using Support Vector Machines to do classification, we will segment and extract features of the IMU readings before and after the impact stage to capture events, and also use a similar performance scoring system of using power and timing of strokes/serves.
My progress is on schedule.
Next week, I hope to give a fantastic product design presentation. I hope to start programming the embedded device that should be arriving. I would like to test the IMU, and start receiving, processing, and transmitting data from it. Finally, I want to complete a test suite that will show metrics of the working system.
