Kaitlyn’s Status Report for 4/27/24

Work Done

This week I spent a lot of time preparing the Final Presentation slides. I modified the slides to be more traffic light themed and also reorganized the structure of our slides to be more cohesive and based on subsystems to reduce redundancy.

The following is the before and after of reorganizing the first couple of slides as well as changing the theme.

Additionally, I had to present for this presentation, so I spent a lot of time rehearsing, especially since I initially was at about 14.5 minutes running through it my first couple times. I eventually got it down to 12.5 then about 11.5 minutes to be under the 12 minute time limit.

I also spent some time researching the 3D simulation for our demo, however it seems like the built-in 3D simulation with SUMO is not compatible with TraCI, so I can’t programmatically control it.

Below is the error I was given trying to add the command line option to use the 3D modeling feature:

I think I might not have a required software installed so I will keep playing around with this once I finish my more pressing tasks in the next few days. I also have seen people use Unity to do 3D visualization for SUMO, so I can also play around with this since I have experience with Unity.

Schedule

I am on track to finish everything on time. I am mostly putting finishing touches on everything as well as improving our testing infrastructure.

Tasks

• Finish improving testing – Collect graphs of wait times vs episodes completed. Potentially improve randomness of the algorithm.
• Put back the disabled syncing features – I disabled the traffic API flow syncing as well as pedestrian/car spawning since we don’t need it for the initial training since it wouldn’t really be synced up to real life (since I train at a rate where 1 real second is 1000 simulation seconds). I will put it back in for our final demo since that is part of the real product.
• Work on 3D modeled simulation. – Try built in and external 3D visualization software.
• Final integration with other subsystems. – We plan on doing the bulk of this tomorrow and finalizing anything new after we finish everything Monday.
• Work on deliverables – poster, video, report.