Accomplishments
The week before spring break, I mainly focused on the design report because we ended up making some major changes to our design. The lack of an FPGA mainly changed many things with our proposed solution and so I changed our Gantt Chart to reflect the new tasks. The week of spring break, I didn’t get much progress done with getting a working implementation of the throughput algorithm, but we decided to change our programming language of choice from C++ to Python because of the lack of significant overhead when using the latter, and more simple syntax. The main issue when trying to finish my C++ implementation that I thought of was how to figure out when to start and end the throughput calculations: if counting the number of items in the bagging area section and seeing how many go there per second and averaging it, it is difficult to accurately determine when to start and when to finish calculating the throughput. I have yet to figure this out.
Progress
I am still a bit behind schedule as I have not fully implemented a working algorithm for detecting when someone picks up and puts down an item yet. I am currently in the process of converting my current (not working) algorithm to Python so I can test it more easily. This week I hope to work with Simon if necessary to get this algorithm working and simultaneously work with Shubhi for her edge detection algorithm as it is the most important part of our proposed solution.