Accomplishments:
This week, I gained some familiarity with the Kria platform as well as read documentation related to the Kria boards and using the vision platform. I also met up with Ankit and Bhavik multiple times to discuss our design and work through any changes that needed to be made to make our MVP more realistic. Earlier in the week, I spent time building the slide deck for the Proposal Presentation. and practicing the presentation.
I am currently on schedule. Since we have decided against the custom PCB and custom drone frame, my main job is getting the PyTorch model working on the Kria Robotics board, which I will definitely be able to complete in time. I will especially be able to complete this due to the abundance of documentation online for the Kria KR260.
In the next week, I hope to have the Vitis AI platform set up and a better understanding on how to use the Vitis platform with the Kria by reading through Varun’s documentation. I also want to have flashed the Linux image onto the Kria and test running a simple program on the ARM chip.