What did you personally accomplish this week on the project? Give files or
photos that demonstrate your progress. Prove to the reader that you put sufficient
At the beginning of this week I spent most of my time trying to integrate the original eYS Stereo camera that we had into our system via getting the depth data and using the camera for VSLAM. We soon found that this camera had really poor documentation and did not work well with what we wanted to do. We pivoted to setting up a real sense camera in its place. I mostly worked on making the code for the camera and hexapod communication into ROS nodes that worked with our yolov8 visualizer. On Wednesday however we realized that our SD card got corrupted with set us back a lot. I spent the rest of the week setting up our environment again and restoring our code. I finished integrating the real sense camera with the image pipeline after some trial and error.
Is your progress on schedule or behind? If you are behind, what actions will be taken to catch up to the project schedule?
The corrupted SD card set us back a few days but we have recovered now. On the bright side we are still not too far behind schedule and the restoring of the SD card allowed us to learn more about dockers, using SSDs, and our environment in general.
What deliverables do you hope to complete in the next week?
Finish a hexapod that can do basic maneuvering, object detection, and object following.