This week we completed the design presentation and finalized the design report for the TrashDash project. I contributed to several sections of the report, including the Architecture and Principle of Operation, Design Trade Studies, System Implementation, and Summary. In addition, I also helped revise the Use-case Requirements, Design Requirements, and Testing sections based on feedback from the design presentation.
After receiving feedback from the design presentation, I spent additional time refining parts of the system that were not emphasized enough previously, especially the software architecture and control logic development. I worked on clarifying how the executive finite state machine coordinates system behavior and how sensor data are converted into motion commands through the control pipeline. These improvements helped make the system design and implementation more clearly documented in the report.
At the moment, the main concern is hardware integration. Since some hardware components have not arrived yet, we cannot fully test the integrated system. Once the hardware is delivered, I plan to begin testing the perception pipeline and control logic with the motor platform to verify that the system can correctly track the user’s hand and generate stable motion commands.