This week, I repeatedly met with Bhavik and Ankit to decide how to move forward. There were a couple things that we had realized that we wanted to reevaluate
- We realized that our battery may not be large enough. We had chosen a 2200 mAh Li-Po battery, but since we needed it to supply 40 Amps, that would mean that we only have about 5 minutes of flight time. So we have decided to resize our battery to get a larger flight time.
- We realized that our FPGA acceleration was not worth it.
Taken from https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/ai-kit/ 
Taken from https://xilinx.github.io/kria-apps-docs/kv260/2022.1/build/html/docs/nlp-smartvision/docs/hw_arch_accel_nlp.html As you can see from the pictures above, the Raspberry PI with AI acceleration has a significant performance boost, and in a smaller form factor because it is a hat for a Raspberry Pi 5. As such it makes sense to switch to this instead of the Kria acceleration.
We are very much on schedule. Since the issues with the Kria was causing some of our schedule to be pushed back, changing to the Raspberry PI will put us ahead of schedule because we are all much more familiar with the platform.
By next week, I hope to have helped Bhavik run the CNN on the Raspberry Pi as we wait for the AI kit to arrive. I will also help Ankit run some of the controls on the drone to check that it can stabilize itself.