After doing a post spring break evaluation, the most significant risks that could jeopardize the success of the project revolve around the camera, both in terms of its function and the dependencies that require its outputs, such as the kinematics calculation module. Despite having a pipeline that can detect depth and display a live camera feed smoothly on my (Nathan’s) laptop, when using X11 forwarding, the resulting feed was extremely slow and laggy. Our plan to manage and mitigate this risk is to get our RPi monitor as soon as possible to test on actual usage as well as look for any opportunities to lower bandwidth and latency. The Luxonis documentation has benchmarks to test these values so we can analyze if we have any shortcomings. Additionally, another risk that stems from the first risk is the fact that we are behind on our timeline. However, we have recently placed orders for pcbs this week so for these fabrication tasks, we have controlled what we can control in terms of timing. This week saw a lot of fabrication of parts, so our next weeks will see an abundance of integration and in-person meeting time.
No changes were made to the existing design of the system and it is consistent with the change made after spring break.
Although no official changes to the schedule have been made, we are systematically cutting things out from the future and trying our best to push forward in terms of days.
Here are some parts Hayden and Varun made!
