One aspect of our design that could potentially interfere with the functionality of the system is wire management. We have multiple components that need to be connected and placed in particular places, such as the camera needing to be placed higher up to get a good shot of the item, while the motor needs to be attached to the swinging door. There are also many components connected to the Arduino, which are the ultrasonic sensor, servo motor, and the weight sensor. It might be difficult to place all of these components in place while they are still attached to the Arduino. We will use a breadboard to organize the components and connections wherever possible, and we can also mount the Jetson and Arduino in different places on the bin to get better placements for the components they connect to.
A slight change with the CV system is that we are constraining the output of our model to various types of recyclables, trash, and special waste. This way we will only recognize items of interest to a recycling bin. If the model can’t classify an image with high confidence, we will still default to classifying it as trash.
There are no changes made to the schedule.
Here is a YOLO output classifying a water bottle as PET plastic (the label is very small):
