Over the last 2 weeks I have spent considerable time working on the ball detection part of the computer vision subsystem. As seen on the design report, we can now pretty reliably detect ping pong balls that are flying through the air. I have also finished the trajectory prediction with the ping pong balls, I still need to filter out unrealistic trajectories, but that shouldn’t be too bad and I am looking forward to testing that component soon.
I have also spent considerable time working on the design document.
Over spring break I was able to retrieve some of the parts for the launching system and I began assembling the launching subsystem with the parts that I had available. I am looking forward to receiving the remaining parts and then I want to finish building the first iteration of the launching mechanism.
This leaves me on track with the schedule.
Next week I plan on finishing construction of the launching mechanism and getting some progress on the computer vision subsystem (I will probably focus on trying to finish the computer vision subsystem).
