This week we all worked on the design review presentation and I presented in the design review. With the introduction of obstacles, I modified the dataset to have all non-plastic bottle items be in the “obstacle” class. I trained the model on the new dataset annotations and got good results. Read more…
This week Serena and I worked out more details of the software system, since we decided to add obstacles and obstacle avoidance to our use case requirements. We plan to add an obstacle class to the detection model and implement OpenCV object tracking so that our LiDAR can distinguish which Read more…
This week we have been working on the design presentation, as Mae and Serena work out software implementation and Meghana on robot hardware. We have two main changes to our project based on the discussions with Tamal this week. Instead of building a robot from scratch, we are going to Read more…
This week and the ending of last week were crucial towards the development of our project, tasks and schedule. We brainstormed and prepared for the Project Proposal Presentation. We also put together the slides and spent a lot of time discussing and breaking down our schedule. We also were able Read more…
This week Serena and I worked out the high level software diagram for our system. We thought about the sequence of calculations, from using the machine learning model for inference to calculating the distance between the robot and target with the lidar camera to sending angle and distance commands. We Read more…