Abie’s Status Reports

This week, I spent a lot of time waterproofing and testing the boat as a complete unit in the UC pool. Emma and I spent a significant amount of time reworking the physical design and waterproofing after we identified several issues where the boat was …

This week, I set up a meeting with the CMU Aquatics director that Emma and I attended in order to coordinate times that we could test our project in the UC pool. We also confirmed that we will be able to demo in the diving …

This week I worked on several things regarding the boat with the team, including the planning for finishing up our project and waterproofing the boat. Additionally, I worked on making the output of the ML algorithm more usable/interpretable for a scientist working on the coral …

This week, I spent most of my time working with the team to prepare for the interim demo. As our current motors are not waterproof and our new ones will not be in for the demo, we had to come up with a way to …

This week, our group focused on starting to build out our boat model. Based on suggestions from Prof Gloria, we decided to use a plastic base in order to create a first prototype that will be stable in the water, rather than going with our …

This week I continued to work on the ML model, however I am behind where I would like to be. To counter this, I plan to devout a significant period of Sunday and Monday to capstone work. I have been working with the python library …

This week I worked on figuring out how to process images in python for the ML color detection algorithm. I was able to get the RGB pixel value from a JPEG image using the Pillow library and from this step am able to self group …

This week, I worked on writing some beginning code for classifying coral health. I am planning on having the code sort samples first by color (blue/pink etc.) and then divide into healthy/unhealthy/at risk. Right now I am still considering the best way to process the …

This week, I have been away from campus (2/12-2/16) for the UAA conference championships with the swim and dive team. Originally my plan was to set up the underwater camera this week, with next week being the implementation of additional sensors. However, as the parts …