Carnegie Mellon ECE Capstone // Spring 2024 // Ankita Chatterjee, Kaitlyn Liu, Zina Zarzycki
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 …
Work Done Since my last status report I have made a lot of progress on the project and am pretty much wrapping up all the tasks I have to do. I realized that the way I was calculating the actions were incorrect and that Q-learning …
Work Done This week I spent most of the time working on the q-learning model that optimizes the traffic light intervals. I finished the basic model and it is working, however it seems like the model keeps converging to really small intervals for the traffic …
Work Done This week I completed the SUMO/TraCI simulation. I modified the simulation to include calibrators, a SUMO feature that allows the simulation to spawn cars to sync with the speed and vehicles per hour you desire. I initially attempted to manually spawn cars but …
Work Done This week I finalized the lane detection in SUMO+TraCI. I spent a whole day trying to debug why the function to collect the waiting time for a car did not work and realized it was ultimately due to a type error. There was …
Work Done This week I spent a lot of time working on the Ethics Assignment and also finishing up the simulation code to use in our ML model. At the moment, I am able to remotely run a SUMO simulation in Python using TraCI. I …
Work Done I spent most of the week working on the Design Report and focused on the introduction, project management, and content relating to the optimization algorithm. There were actually a lot of details that we had to flesh out relating to the optimization algorithm …
Work Done I finished working on functions to call the APIs and set everything up for both TomTom and HERE. I also set up the SUMO simulation software on my laptop. This took really long because I was originally using my Macbook to install it, …
Work Done This week I worked on the Design Review presentation as well as doing additional research on our solution design, specifically on the APIs we will be using as well as the optimization algorithm. I have finalized the APIs we will be using to …
Work Done At the beginning of the week I helped finalize parts of the Proposal Presentation slides. This week I set up the Github and started researching the traffic API that we will use. I looked into the TomTom traffic API and set up a …