In the beginning of the week, I helped to complete the team proposal presentation, particularly focusing on the use case, use case requirement, and schedule on my end. Then, I presented the proposal on Monday as a representative of the team. Later on, based on the feedback, I worked with Xinyu to finalize some details about our project such as making sure our basket is at a height that can be conveniently grabbed by the elderly, who is our main group of target audience and who may struggle to bend their body. Then, I started to list out the required materials. I first looked through the ECE inventory to see if there is anything we can make use of, and did some research to see what each item can do. I determined with Xinyu and finally submitted requests for RPi 5, camera, and UGV robot base, which according to research would be useful.
I am currently behind our schedule. According to our schedule, I should have done the hardware setup, but I figured out that clearly we were to ambitious about this, since we need more time to think about what items we need to purchase. To make up for this, I should work with Xinyu early next week to finalize the things we need to purchase that do not appear on ECE inventory, and submit these requests through the form. Then hopefully I can have some time at the end of next week to finish the hardware setup if we can receive them. While I wait for the materials to be received, I can also do some research on how to set up the hardware and be prepared to do so once they arrive. Hopefully, I can finish the hardware setup by next week.