This week, I focused on making some optimizations to the camera settings to reduce latency. Specifically, I worked on the following:
Improved Camera Latency
- Collaborated with the team to measure latency from user input to system output by switching to MJPEG compression for the stereo camera
- Reduced latency to a range of 200 – 250 ms which is about a 200 ms improvement from the previous camera configuration
Project Status
I am currently a little behind with the project timeline. The team was busy this week because of the semester coming to a close, and we we’re not able to get an early start to our last additions such as the z-axis. However, we met over the weekend and made a plan for success next week. We have allotted sufficient time next week to finish course assignments and add the final touches.
Goals for Next Week
- Integrate Z-axis into the gantry system and implement depth calculation in OpenCV
- Conduct final use case tests to include in the final report (water pouring and more object manipulation