Aditya Ranade
- What did you personally accomplish this week on the project? Give files or photos that demonstrate your progress. Prove to the reader that you put sufficient effort into the project over the course of the week.
This week, I worked on improving the computation time of the robot. We keep the map constant between determining frontiers and finding the trajectory. As a result, we get both the results with only one service call. This reduced our computation time from 17s to around 10-11s.
- Is your progress on schedule or behind? If you are behind, what actions will be taken to catch up to the project schedule?
We are finished with our project and just making minor optimizations to improve obstacle avoidance and reduce time taken.
- What deliverables do you hope to complete in the next week?
Final Report!
Akshat Jain
- What did you personally accomplish this week on the project? Give files or photos that demonstrate your progress. Prove to the reader that you put sufficient effort into the project over the course of the week.
This week we worked mainly on setting up a cardboard maze that resembles our demo space. We tested our robot multiple times in this maze ensuring the thermal camera works correctly and is able to detect people most of the time. We recorded all of these results to include in our final report.
- Is your progress on schedule or behind? If you are behind, what actions will be taken to catch up to the project schedule?
We are more or less done with the project and all that remains is further testing and recording of results.
- What deliverables do you hope to complete in the next week?
We hope to work on the final report in the next week.
Wenxin Xiao
- What did you personally accomplish this week on the project? Give files or photos that demonstrate your progress. Prove to the reader that you put sufficient effort into the project over the course of the week.
This week we spent a lot of time figuring out how to set up the maze we are showing for public demo. We assembled a test space that resembles the demo space we planned and tested our robot many times to ensure the navigation and thermal are working as expected.
- Is your progress on schedule or behind? If you are behind, what actions will be taken to catch up to the project schedule?
We essentially finished our project but we intend to test and record our results with more environments and iterations to provide a fuller discussion for final report.
- What deliverables do you hope to complete in the next week?
We hope to present in the public demo and finish the final report next week.
TEAM UPDATE
This week, we were able to significantly reduce computation time from 17s to 11s. We also mask some of the computation time by spawning a thread to rotate the robot at the same time. We also set up our final demo environment using cardboard boxes to test our robot before the public demo. Overall, the success rate of completion and human detection is something we are quite happy with.