Team Status Report for 9/21

This week, we focused on finalizing and presenting our project proposal for the motion-sensing shoe sole. The proposal presentation highlighted the feasibility and design considerations of the project, however as we had changed ideas after the abstract submission, we were not able to meet with professors to fully discuss the feasibility of the project. The presentation was successfully delivered, and feedback was received to guide the next phase of the project – including aspect reevaluating the use of pressure sensors in the shoe sole in regards to durability and data collection for our desired use case. We had an insightful meeting with Tamal to discuss the technical feasibility of our project. During the discussion, we discussed issues like bandwidth, selecting a suitable IMU, and perhaps pivoting away from using pressure pads. and decided to focus more on making the IMU work effectively to meet our data-processing requirements, as well as using it externally in the shoe rather than in the shoe sole which could hinder performance. The lack of pressure pad may lead to unexpected technical challenges in measuring certain foot metrics. However, this trade-off will simplify the design and reduce complexity. So we need to spend some time to make key decisions this weekend to further progress with our project. In regard to the upcoming week, we have decided to meet very early on to look look into our use case requirements in detail, and look at specific hardware components and current studies to revaluate our product and create a more detailed systems and UML design, in order to ensure our design is feasible.

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