This week we finally presented our System Level Design to a wide audience of IPPD sponsors and teams. Their feedback was great. They provided insight on our object detection and angle calculation algorithms. It was also great to see all… Read More

This week we received two more videos of cell towers. Even better, they have meta data such as GPS and accelerometor informatics.The metadata will be great in our antenna angle calculations. It may simplify the problem much further than we… Read More

The System Level Design Review is a few weeks from now. We’re beginning to prepare the report. As we begin to develop our software architecture at a system level we are brainstorming a lot of concepts for the antenna angle… Read More

This week we presented our progress on our prototypes. At this point we had finished developing our object detection model from the first set of data we received. Our object detection would work fairly accurately but needed more data. Additionally,… Read More

Our final project consists of two software modules, one for object detection and another for angle calculations. In our PDR and prototype presentations, we have demonstrated our progress in building the object detection model and discussed our approach in designing… Read More

In preparation for our upcoming Preliminary Design Report, we began the process of formalizing the many ideas and concepts we’ve generated, narrowing down the ideas to a couple of promising concepts. We settled on the primary output for our system… Read More

After collecting the images of our first tower, we had to start annotating them. In our first draft of our Preliminary Design Report, we focused largely on background research of pre-exisitng softwares like ours. We found that a direct computer… Read More

This week we visited one of Verizon’s cell tower sites in Plant City. We got to see meet our liason engineer and get a full tour of a cellular switch site! Also, Verizon brought out members from their drone piloting… Read More

This week, we were finally able to meet with our liaison engineer, Teja. During this meeting, we were able to explain what information we needed, and though he did not have the answers to all our questions, he is able… Read More

Now that we’ve met each other, the team began building the foundation for our work for the rest of the year. The first step of this was doing a full analysis of our scope of work, identifying our stakeholders, and… Read More