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Team Status Update for 2/29

This week we have all been hard at work on our individual tasks, but as a team we’ve been sifting through the feedback we were given on our project and have been looking for ways to incorporate it into our report. We have made progress on ordering materials and are looking forward to making a prototype for the frame next week.

One of the big takeaways from the design review is that we need to make real measurements of our current runtimes, which is something we’ve been struggling with since the Duvetyne fabric that will improve the tap-detection and provide a consistent background for the CV software has not yet arrived. We expect that when it arrives, hopefully this week, we will be able to make these measurements and assess our progress more quantitatively.

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Aneek’s Status Update for 2/29

This week I gave the design review presentation for our team, so I mainly focused on practicing for that and refining the slides beforehand. I also thought more about the software architecture and created a full diagram of the library structure as well as the callable functions between them, so that we can divide up the tasks very easily into different components.

Post-presentation, I reviewed the feedback on our design and continued to build out the Tap detection software. The socket programming is almost complete, and the tap detection software is pretty much complete for testing – once the Duvetyne mat arrives, I will jump right into that and see what fine-tuning we can do to improve detection and lower latency.

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Connor’s Status Update for 2/29

This week, I was mainly concerned with ordering parts. I decided we will order the PVC parts from F.W. Webb Company as we will need around 25 ft. of piping and they sold it in this size range. Mid-week we received some feedback from our design presentation. I decided to alter our frame design a bit based on that feedback. Originally, we were thinking of preventing the frame from toppling by adding weight to the front. However, it is not too difficult to add avoid tipping by lengthening the side bars. Next week, I would like to get a functioning prototype of the frame assembled.

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Andrew’s Status Update for 2/29

This week we’ve all been hard at work on our report and reviewing the feedback we got from our presentation.  I have been continuing to refine the thresholding for our piece segmentation as well as playing around with some feature extraction methods.  Right now I am still running into trouble with background noise of the surface we are using, but that should theoretically be fixed by the time the new surface we will be using comes in. If not I’ve done some preliminary research on how to fix it, but they would likely require tuning for that specific surface and It is a problem that would make more sense facing when we know what our final surface will be.

Here is my use of ORB feature detection method, but as you can see by the red dots it is picking up a lot of the features from my laptop case.