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Team’s Status Report for 02/14

Our most present issue was the fact that by Monday’s meeting, we were still fairly unsure of some of our MVPs, and we had a lot of maybes in what we wanted to do. Additionally, we still hadn’t thought about many situations and edge cases, such as how we were going to go through the process of connecting our device to Wifi as well as what our UI was going to look like. 

We made some changes to our design. After meeting with Prof. Theo on Monday, we decided that we need to scope down our MVP. We ultimately decided that we will continue to implement PDR for outdoor tracking however we decided to scope down from including indoor tracking as we would rather have one component working very well rather than two components kind of working, because we are still implementing PDR for outdoor we do still have the ability to implement indoor tracking if time allows however it is no longer a part of our MVP. Additionally, we figured out what we want our UI to look like, and we decided that we want to implement both a friends list and a random list, which was still open for a bit. 

Our testing plan and schedule remain the same because we still need all the components we used for indoor testing for outdoor testing as well.

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Lata’s Status Report for 02/14

ACCOMPLISHED: 

This week, I worked on the Design presentation. I focused on Testing, Verification, Metrics, and created a design of what the UI will look like when clicking through the different sections. I  have done my research into PDR and how to implement it into MATLAB, and have begun the implementation. 

PROGRESS / SCHEDULE:

My progress is a bit behind schedule because my goal was to finish implementing PDR by Saturday however I think it will be a bit closer too Sunday/Monday by the time I finish however I dont think that this will make that much of difference in the timeline due to the fact that the components that we are actually using for the PDR (IMU) will not be arriving until next week when the real integration with that will begin 

DELIVERABLES / NEXT STEPS:

Next Week, I will:

  • Complement my implementation of PDR on MATLAB
  • Begin implementation of PDR on a breadboard so that when we hook it up to our device, we will have an idea of how to do that
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Meet PULSE

Pulse is a dedicated, handheld device that facilitates spontaneous human connection without the digital baggage of a smartphone. By providing a single directional vector toward a friend, the device replaces the administrative labor of texting and the distraction of digital maps with a high-intuition, eyes-up navigation experience. Pulse allows students to share their location and navigate toward others without the cognitive load of notifications or context-switching. Pulse encourages students to explore new physical environments and break out of academic silos, ensuring they can wander freely while remaining connected to their community.

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Lata’s Status Report for 02/07

Accomplished:

This week, I worked on the proposal presentation. I focused on Testing, Verification, Metrics, and Key Technical Challenges and Mitigations. Additionally, I gave the presentation on Wednesday, so my focus was on understanding what everyone was writing and memorizing the slides. Additionally, I submitted our first purchase request for the GPS device we will be using for our project. I looked into PDR a bit based on what others have done and how they have implemented it in MATLAB as a base for how I will have to do and and I have thinking about what I will want to change and update so that we can have more precise location detection.

Progress / Schedule:

My progress is on schedule because we set the schedule recently and included a brief break at the beginning. Based on the schedule in this week I need to learn about PDR and how to implement it on a Breadboard and Matlab, however without knowing how to do it on Matlab first ill struggle to do it on a breadboard so it seems like I am behind schedule because I need to understand PDR and how it all works and implement it this week so that I can easily implement it on a breadboard next week.

Deliverables / Next Steps:

Next Week, I will:

  • Research the different ways to implement PDR Algorithms 
  • Learn how to utilize the Kalman filter and other filters for PDR
  • Implement and test PDR methods in MATLAB to figure out which method might be the most reliable