This week was spent running tests of our use case requirements. I worked to test the bot’s performance when starting at the edge of a 1.5m radius circle, in which three plastic bottles were placed at random. Through all this testing we discovered and attempted to fix multiple issues, including Read more…
These past two weeks I finished the entire hardware and construction for the robot. I mounted the battery with a motor mount and mounted it to the side plank with a motor after measuring out where exactly the connection should go. I ordered a motor key that allowed me to Read more…
This week we fully put the robot together. We first created a new back trunk area to hold our batteries, placed all of our components on the lexan plate on the top of the bot, 3D printed a camera stand, finished soldering wires and taping down the cords for all Read more…
This week we made a lot of progress testing our system as a whole. Over Thanksgiving break and this past week we put together the entire system on the robot and cleaned it up so that we could do proper remote testing, including 3d printing a camera mount, taping all Read more…
This week was full of setbacks for our software process. We struggled with setting up the Xavier with Jetpack 5.0 then discovered that it while it allowed us to access CUDA, was difficult to be compatible with the pyrealsense2 library due to the python3 version being python3.8 rather than the Read more…
Lots of work was done but not a lot of progress this week involving the Jetsons(s). Mae and I worked with Professor Mukherjee for several days to get the Jetson Xavier flashed with Jetpack 5.0, which required us to set up the Xavier from anew, including registering it as a Read more…
This week we prepared for our interim demos this week to show the hardware and software progress for our robot. On the hardware side, we showed our intake mechanism working with a drill. The intake mechanism works with full sized/fixed size water bottles very well. We still need to determine Read more…
This week we worked together to prepare for in class demos by polishing up the robot structure and creating a working prototype of our software system. Meghana and I worked on reducing the weight and friction of the robot by adding caster wheels beneath the structure, which allows the robot Read more…
This week, I spent the majority of my time working with Meghana to construct the robot as a whole, especially prototyping and finalizing the build for the intake mechanism. We were able to fully attach the intake mechanism to the front of the robot, as well as the intake ramp Read more…
This week we focused on improving the bottle detection algorithm as well as building the structure of the intake mechanism on the iRobot. We were able to ssh into the Jetson, which has allowed us to do more field testing. For the bottle detection algorithm side, one main issue we’re Read more…