Summary of October 13th- The very beginning

Logbook noting:

Last Friday I uploaded the system of the Mac in the lab and downloaded the Xcode to the Mac.

I read some articles about collision warning system. Here are some notes.

Rear-end accidents indicates different type of collision

sufficient headway 

momentary lack of concentration can lead to a situation where a rear-end collision can occur. 

Vehicle detection

 3.0 seconds how can we decide it

mono-camera

in day and night time conditions 

Adaptive Cruise Control 

 Vision-only applications 

radar-vision fusion systems for both Warning and Collision Mitigation by Braking systems

this project does not involve radar-vision fusion system

100 meters in vision-only mode.

I found a website named “How To Make iPhone Apps With No Programming Experience”. On this website, there are some video introducing how to develop the apple app without programming experience. Figure 1 shows the website.

 

 

I learned the first 6 tutorials and tried to build my own app but failed.

I built in the Mac computer as the picture showing:

As I was trying to modify the code, the technician came and announced the end of that day. 

Comments:

At the very beginning, I didn’t have a Mac, so I have to use the Mac in our university lab. In the first semester of final year I went to lab nearly two days a week. Focusing on background research. At that time I thought about using radar to enhance the accuracy of my product. Unfortunately, technicians told me radar is not allowed in any Final Year Project. From then on, I decided using image processing only.

In the first three weeks, I was more focusing on safety distance, and a little bit excited about using Xcode to develop an iPhone app. I found a webpage on Youtube “How to make apple app with no programming experience”.  To be honest, as an electrical engineering, I am afraid of programming. When I learn C or C++ in the second year, I was struggled. Even though that time was “terrible”, I still believe learning programming language is just like learning a language like English. What I need to do is keep on practicing, trying. Maybe I can’t become a smart man who is very smart in programming like Bill Gates, but be able to develop some functional software is enough for me. Back to that video tutorial. I think the author Chris is very kind, he share those good and useful videos on the internet. This let me have some experience and happiness of really use the internet and sharing information to each other. That’s what I think a real internet should be used for.