1. Project # 12 – Smart Walker REU student: Christopher Feltner Graduate mentors: Sharare Zethabian and Siavash Khodadadeh Faculty mentor(s): Dr. Turgut and Dr. Bölöni
Week 7 (June 25 – June 29, 2018)
Accomplishments:
Identified a method to find obstacles using point clouds
Configured Point Cloud Library
Completed functions for creating a Voxel Grid and for a pass-through filter
Wrote code to interface with Kinect and grab point clouds directly from device with OpenNi
Turned 20!
Problems & Solutions:
Couldn’t build walker because of waiting for components
Components arrived Thursday
Plans for next week:
Construct walker
Finish point cloud software
Test!
NSF REU Research Experience on Internet of Things 2018

2. Figure 1 – Examples of point clouds
Project # 12 – Smart Walker REU student: Christopher Feltner Graduate mentors: Sharare Zethabian and Siavash Khodadadeh Faculty mentor(s): Dr. Turgut and Dr. Bölöni
Figure 1 – Examples of point clouds
NSF REU Research Experience on Internet of Things 2018