Team Status Report for Saturday, 1/31/26

One significant risk that could jeopardize the success of our project is our ability to preprocess frames quickly in the arm SOC while performing robotics controls on that same microprocessor. To address this, we may use an additional SOC outside of the KR260 to handle robotics controls while receiving information about recognized objects from the KR260. Another risk is getting the system to move accurately with our motors and making movements reproducible. We can manage this by starting the robotics early and prioritizing consistency. Time needed for training models and making sure weights can fit on board is also a concern, so we will start as soon as possible. One contingency plan if our RTL doesn’t work properly or is difficult to integrate is to use Vitis AI. Also if training the model is too difficult to do we can use pre-trained weights. Since our abstract we narrowed down our use case to a delivery robot capable of navigating through pedestrian dense environments. On top of sign detection the car will be capable of avoiding obstacles and stopping for people.