This week we delivered the State of Art of our article. We talked about some research studies that we found related to our topic as well as the methodologies and material we will use to develop our project.
Regarding the project itself, we have started to code our project, starting with the connection between de ESP32 and the servo motor. Our camera can now detect a person’s face and it rotates in order to the person’s head stays in the middle. However, not everything was easy, because we noticed we bought the wrong servo motors. We had ones that don’t rotate 180º degrees, but it continuously rotates to one side, and after a time set in the code it starts rotating to the other side. This wasn’t what we wanted so we had to get new ones. Thankfully, professor André Dias had the motors we needed and supplied us with two of them. One to tilt and one to pan, as we wanted. With these motors, our camera is now rotating how we want and correctly. Now, we need to change our code in order for the ESP32 to send the message through Wi-Fi to the servo motors because it working via USB at the moment. We also need to assembly and code the second servo motor, the one that goes up and down, but we can only do it next week because teacher André Dias only had one for now. This is how we currently are:
Also, we have been studying how to implement the agent’s code which we want to start next week.