Rayann’s Status Report for 4/4

This week, I prepared for the interim demo. I continued collecting data using the hand-held data collection circuit connecting a pair of ultrasonic transmitter and receiver with an ADC and Arduino Nano. I collected more healthy duct data and started collecting corroded material data. The raw data is in the Training Data file linked below. Then, I debugged the MATLAB processing pipeline to handle the data collected and processed the data as training data for the SVM. The processed data is in the GitHub linked below. Then, I wrote another MATLAB processing function specifically meant to be downloaded onto the Jetson to collect data from the teensy MCU and input the processed data into the SVM. I am still in the process of debugging this code. Currently, the SVM is only trained on very few data samples. All of my code is also in the GitHub linked below.

 

I am on schedule, and the next step is to finish integrating the signal processing pipeline and trained model with the Jetson on the robot. Next steps include continuing to debug the on-board processing pipeline and training the SVM, as well as changing hyperparameters. I would also like to take another look at the features I decided to process the data into and verify that the processing is accurate.

 

My work for this week can be found here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1n9EZVZOw4e8DMoP9_O2lPJV9oe4U9V2cjh6RSExgdro/edit?usp=drivesdk

 

https://github.com/aphadke234/ece_capstone_C7

 

Adithi’s Status Report for 4/4

Accomplishments

This week, I worked on fine-tuning the issues with our interim demo, fixing some code. After our interim demo this week, we didn’t get a lot of feedback except that we seemed to be on track, which was good news.

After our interim demo, this week I have spent the time working on integrating our robot with the LiDAR in such a way that it can detect whether or not it is in the duct. It will take the sides of the duct and figure out whether it is in the middle of the duct and autocorrect. I have worked on making the robot move in a smoother manner.

I have also started building the final demo duct that we will use. I plan to use plexiglass so that people can see the robot moving inside the duct. I have also made sure there will be 2 bends, and naturally have been fine-tuning the 90 degree turns the robot will have to make. We worked on making the robot autonomous this week.

My work this week has mainly been on Github and working on the physical robot itself and can be found here: https://github.com/aphadke234/ece_capstone_C7

Schedule

I am on schedule now and currently on track. I am happy with my progress and think that I will be done with my part of the project and able to help my peers with their deliverables after the end of next week.

Next Week

Next week, I will finish building our interim demo structural HVAC duct so that we can have a good presentation to show viewers what our project is. I will also begin working on the final presentation and report and poster. I also want to make sure the robot does not have to be connected to a charger by the NVidia and that we can have our LiPo battery pack on the Jetson.