June 25, 2009

Since yesterday we've accomplished some. Ugonna and I spend about an hour and a half in the lab scripting the robot's actions. While we were doing that, Taylor was experimenting with optical flow. As it turns out, optical flow will NOT work for what we want (it just isn't quite optimized for our specifications) so we're going to use motion history instead. We have a meeting with Professor Stoytchev and our grad students in a few minutes, and hopefully we get approval for the specifics we've figured out and we don't get sent back to the drawing board. I looked at the schedule and we only have 3.5 weeks left to finish, and if we keep getting delayed we will definitely not finish. While implementing the optimal solution would be great, I feel if we keep trying to make what we plan to do better, we'll never actually get a chance to do it. I'm really hoping Professor Stoytchev doesn't decide that we need to completely revamp everything, because if he does we will not finish. Period.

Update:

E = M^M - G + C/T

where E is the entropy of the project, M is the number of meetings with your faculty advisor, G is the number of meetings with your graduate advisors, C is your initial confidence factor, and T is the time remaining until the deadline. This gives us

P = 1/E

where P is the probability of finishing on time. AGHHHHHHHH! where's my stress ball?

BellaManoim - 26 Jun 2009 - 10:21

pink stress ball gooooo