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…
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…
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 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 worked as a team to get the robot structure built. Meghana and I placed additional orders for and picked up the rest of the wood from HomeDepot and hence we were able to begin constructing the frame on the robot. We cut the anchor part that attaches Read more…
This week, we made an important modification to our project as a team— after speaking with Professor Mukherjee, we decided to use an iRobot as our base rather than building a robot from scratch. Mae and I then worked on refining the pipeline for our software system, based on Read more…
This week, Mae, Meghana, and I all worked on completing the Project Proposal Slides by solidifying our scope and laying out our requirements, tools, challenges, solution, and timeline. I rehearsed giving the speech so that I could deliver it adequately. I also worked with Mae to walk through our current Read more…