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 Read more…
After the last status update last weekend, I CADed the basic parts of the robot. Below are pictures of the CADed robot from different angles. While I was CADing the robot, I also had to figure out exactly what parts 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 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 Read more…
This week after speaking with Tamal, we decided to pivot away from building a robot from scratch and using an iRobot as a base instead. In the beginning I was struggling with mounting on the iRobot and it being more 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 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 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. Read more…
In the beginning of the week, Mae and I helped Serena with the Project Proposal Slides. During the slide preparations I made a rough Figma design of what the robot will look like. In the upcoming week I plan to 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 Read more…