HyperRail Pivoting Project

Yesterday and today, we decided to pivot our project. Lets first go over the initial idea of the project and what the pivot was.

As a review, we are implementing a motorized gantry with an x, y axis movement to capture pictures along a path plot of crops. On the gantry is an end effector which is a sensor that detect co2, humidity, and also temperature. Also, there is a camera. This camera is a Micasense camera that takes pictures at 5 different wavelengths. The original plan was to take a picture at every point within the plot of land that is selected by the user. Then we would stitch the images together. However, we ran into some difficulties (having a solution that allowed for usability and accuracy) with implementing sample pictures that were disjointed. Disjointed means that the user would pick two or more seperate coordinates that are not next to each-other. This was becoming a roadblock for us on how to implement something that was reliable. So we decided to work on a pivot to the project idea.
Instead of selecting each coordinate to go to take a picture with a program sent from the user, we scan the whole field and take pictures and collect data from all the points. The data will be stitched. At the end, the user will be able to select which data they would like to incorporate in the scanned plot of land. The data in the picture that is not needed will be blacked out and shown in the user interface. This will make it so the images are stitched together in an easy fashion.

After getting confirmation that we can pivot the project idea, we will need to make sure that everybody knows there objective of the project.

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