FDR was a blast! We got to present our work to our liaison at the private showcase, see other teams present, give our final presentation, network, and describe our project to the public. It was also super cool to see… Read More

This week, the Orbiteers focused on refining the system and preparing for final delivery. We also re-recorded our project video, capturing a clearer look at CAPS in action and how everything comes together. On the training side, the team began… Read More

This week, the Orbiteers presented our system at Prototype Inspection Day, marking an exciting step as CAPS continues to take shape. It was a great opportunity to show how the different pieces of the project are coming together and to… Read More

Returning from Spring Break, the Orbiteers brushed off the sand and shook the water out of our ears in preparation for the final stretch of IPPD. Beach vacations are temporary, but Earth observation is forever! With renewed momentum, the team… Read More

In the final week before Spring Break, the Orbiteers made solid progress in the usual subteams of benchmarking and training, with new work on a user interface for our application ramping up. From working on testing, plotting, and streamlining, the… Read More

This week, the Orbiteers made meaningful strides across all three sub-teams on the CAPS project, with progress ranging from detection pipeline fixes to new scheduling strategies and image scoring. On the object detection front, the GPU testing team tracked down… Read More

This week, the Orbiteers were able to build off of the feedback from the first QRB presentation and made the necessary adjustments in order to have a more successful QRB 2 presentation this past Tuesday. Furthermore, there was continued progress… Read More

This week we continued building momentum, with each subteam pushing forward and beginning to produce more measurable results. The benchmarking team developed and tested new CI (continuous integration) scripts to run benchmarks across multiple target selection strategies and scenario combinations.… Read More

This week, instead of our usual class, we had an IPPD project work day to keep our project moving forward. The team met over Zoom (see photo below) to collaborate across sub-teams and made great progress. The GPU Testing Team… Read More

This week, the GPU testing, benchmarking, and RL learning team all advanced. The GPU testing team got TensorRT working with dynamic batch sizes and found that it was much faster than PyTorch! The benchmarking team finished the lightweight runner but… Read More

We are fresh off of our QRB 1 presentation and we received good feedback on our project. The coach feedback was valuable and has already begun guiding our project. For example, we created goals that got approved by MRSL that… Read More

This week, the Orbiteers continued to build on the strong start to the semester as development efforts ramped up across the project. A major focus this week was laying the groundwork for more systematic evaluation of our approaches. The team… Read More

This week marked the Orbiteers’ first week back after the December break, and we hit the ground running. Right before the break, our NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit arrived, and now that we’re back on campus, our resident… Read More