The only obstacle/risk that’s present on the audio side has to do with the opera portion and the different tempos present in one of the pieces. To mitigate this, we’ll have to contact Professor Dannenberg and get his advice on how to deal with the multiple tempos using Accomplice. Apart from that, the only other obstacle is going through the blocking to figure out where the cues need to be set in the .gro file, but we’ll again communicate with Dr. Dueck and her students figured this out. The biggest obstacle regarding the physical tracking system for Autocam seems to be regarding the feedback loop for the rail. Accurately measuring the position of the trucking could be simultaneously affected by slipping belts, added friction, or even a bearing slightly losing contact with the aluminium pipe. These minute changes in variables could cause the system to be inaccurate when measuring the distance traveled across the x-axis. We aim to minimize these risks by consolidating the rail system and fine tuning and physical issues we encounter. Our mitigation methods include rebalancing the physical rail, use locktite for bearing connections, and re-tightening our trucking belt. We got the trucking part of the Autocam working and live tracking a node this week! Please see our github for more details which we hope and are designing to allow any one in the future to improve upon and create our system with detailed instructions, (GitHub).
Carnegie Mellon ECE Capstone, Spring 2026 | Ted Kim, Pareekshith Krishna, Ahmad Shanniek