Accomplishments
This week, one of the main things I was tasked with was finding our sources of corroded metal sheets. My contact from the trade center said that we could possibly visit some junkyards to find sheets of metal. I went to go look this week but didn’t really find anything. Another approach I have also been exploring is reaching out to student organizations since buggy and booth teams are likely to have old scrap metal. I have found one metal sheet which we can utilize and hope to find another. Since our team has received the metallic ducts, I have been working on getting them assembled to form our HVAC duct for our demo.
The robot chassis was put together and I tested the motor controller code and it is functional. Outside of this, I have started writing code for our ultrasonic transmitter and receivers to interact with our ADC module. I still need to solder some components we have received but this week I mainly worked on figuring out integration.
My work this week has mainly been on Github and can be found here: https://github.com/aphadke234/ece_capstone_C7
Schedule
I am on schedule now and currently on track. I have been writing the code for integration and Mahati has been helping me while Rayann continues to refine the ML model. In 3 weeks time by the interim demo deadline, we hope to have a moving robot inside the duct with an okay classifier detector machine learning model.
Next Week
Next week, I need to order the remote control I have found as well as our final components for our project as well as some extras. I also need to do a budget check since we should have a significant amount of money left to spend. This week, I plan to get the system set up where the robot can move autonomously for now, conduct a solenoid tapper for when a crack is detected (I will just be coding the movement response of this tapper), getting the ultrasonic transmitters and receivers to work functionally with the ADC and send data to our laptop. I also need to update our design module diagram since it has changed a little bit.