Project # 12 – Smart Walker REU student: Christopher Feltner Graduate mentors: Sharare Zethabian and Siavash Khodadadeh Faculty mentor(s): Dr. Turgut and Dr. Bölöni Week 9 (July 9 – July 13, 2018) Accomplishments: Segmentation function differentiates floor and wall planes, and only segments floor plane Able to identify closest point after floor plane inlier extraction…obstacle detection function working properly when obstacles aren’t too close Added Statistical Outlier Filter Created research poster Problems & Solutions: Sometimes there is an outlier which causes the obstacle detection function to alert improperly Solution: Create some sort of outlier filter based on previous values Ubuntu virtual machine terminal doesn’t detect internal speaker to make alert beep Solution: Run software on Windows computer We have one week left Solution: Don’t sleep Plans for next week: Make some of the “final polish” fixes Collect test data Finish poster Write final paper Present NSF REU Research Experience on Internet of Things 2018