18500 Search and Aid Gantt Chart

	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I	J	K	L	M	N	O	P	Q	R	S	T	U	V
1	task/milestone	description	person/people with primary responsibility	start date	finish date	Wed 2/7	Wed 2/14	Sun 2/18	Wed 2/21	Wed 2/28	Fri 3/1	Wed 3/6	Wed 3/13	Wed 3/20	Wed 3/27	Wed 4/3	Wed 4/10	Wed 4/17	Sun 4/21	Wed 4/24	Wed 5/1	Sat 5/4

2	Perform material research	Perform research on correct materials to buy (motors, Arduino components, etc.), especially finding the right drone	David	2/7	2/14	x	x
3	Load Balancing Algorithm (1/2)	Perform research on optimal load balancing algorithms and implement in Go	Ronit	2/7	2/14	x	x
4	General Website Setup	Create base template for Django website, do front/backend setup of site, and research hosting live video streaming	Nina	2/7	2/14	x	x
5	Design Presentation Slides	Design Presentation Slides	All	2/14	2/18		x	x
6	Find methods for obtaining drones	Find where and how to purchase/obtain drones to use that are suitable for our needs - talk with robotics professors (like Basti)	David	2/14	2/21		x	x	x
7	Load Balancing Algorithm (2/2)	Implement the load balancing algorithm in Go, and finish unit testing. Research fetching the video stream from the DCC	Ronit	2/14	2/21		x	x	x
8	Implement GPS Tracking	Research and implement GPS tracking of drone using GoogleMaps API on top of Django website	Nina	2/14	2/21		x	x	x
9	Talk with Basti, Work on rover pivot by re-examing parts and redesign project	Talk with Prof. Basti about drones, Talk with Tamal and Kim about failure, redesign project to be accomadating for rover over drone usage	David	2/21	2/28				x	x
10	Rover Camera & Communication Research	Research camera modules with moving feature that can be attached to rover, order, research new communication methods of camera data to Ronit and monitoring site since drone fly app is removed	Nina	2/21	2/28				x	x
11	Computer Vision Algorithm on the Distributed Server	Implement the Computer Vision Algorithm on the CV processing units. Integrate with video frames and unit tests	Ronit	2/21	2/28				x	x
12	Obtain rover project materials, initial work, spring break	Order rover and PTZ camera, examine rover code	David	2/28	3/13					x	x	x	x
13	Implement communication from Raspberry Pi to the Distributed CV server	Use FFMPEG to receive a uploaded video stream and break it into several frames for batch processing in Go	Ronit	2/28	3/13					x	x	x	x
14	Implement working PTZ camera on RPi desktop	OS conversion from Buster to Bullseye, Firmware updates and changes to fix stale external trigger issue with camera, order new ribbon cables in order to fix no camera display issue, implement PTZ on RPi with nondeprecated libraries that OpenCV can support	Nina	2/28	3/13					x	x	x	x
15	Obtain more mats, switch from rover wifi to UART comms	Purchase smaller batteries and laser heads, test with rover web app, work out the correct JSON commands to send over UART	David	3/13	3/20								x	x
16	PTZ refinement and camera debugging	Implement keyboard press control of PTZ gimbal using Arducam libraries and continue debugging camera firmware/potentially hardware issue of stream going stale and no camera display showing	Nina	3/13	3/20								x	x
17	Integrate frame breakdown with CV server code/ build laser pointing circuit	Build a laser pointing circuit using the Raspberry Pi pins and GPIO. Integrate frame breakdown with the Distributed CV server and write unit tests	Ronit	3/13	3/20								x	x
18	Rover movement with UART comms	Work out the correct JSON commands to send over UART and/or debugging rover movement, set up new RPi for concurrent work (VNC, ssh, Bullseye)	David	3/20	3/27									x	x
19	Camera Frankenstein	Order new imx219 camera and attach to camera serial data of RPi along with PTZ portion of broken camera and disable communication between the components to allow for separate movement and live stream, research live streaming from RPi to personal computer	Nina	3/20	3/27									x	x
20	Communication from CV server to rover	Write scripts to use TCP to communicate from the CV server to the rover to turn on the laser pointer	Ronit	3/20	3/27									x	x
21	Finalize rover movement and tuning	Get controlled movement for rover through extensive debugging, and tune it to do exact turns and movement	David	3/27	4/3										x	x
22	Real time communication of video data	Implement RPi streaming communication through use of OpenCV and picamera2 libraries to send video data to Ronit and monitoring site and embed stream into site through iframe	Nina	3/27	4/3										x	x
23	Monitoring Site Refinement & Scripting	Create script that will have preset camera movement pattern to look around and also further flesh out web application with manual movement controls of camera	Ronit	3/27	4/3										x	x
24	Threading	Have the code running on one RPi with threading between video streaming and code logic, or by using two RPis	All	4/3	4/10											x	x
25	Laser pointer accuracy	Coordinate math to be able to point laser correctly, accounting for angle and positioning; Work with CV server to handle location and pointing logic	Ronit & David	4/3	4/10											x	x
26	Integrate physically together	Integrate everything, make mount	All	4/10	4/17												x	x
27	Final Presentation Slides	Final Presentation Slides	All	4/17	4/21													x	x
28	Test entirety of setup	Make sure everything is integrated and working with server and website	All	4/17	4/24													x	x	x
29	Prepare for final demo	Fine-tune anything that is needed	All	4/24	5/4															x	x	x
30	Final Report	Final Report	All	4/24	5/4															x	x	x
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