Programming

During the second half of the minor, we had a project where we had to apply our knowledge by creating a video game in Unity. This was a group project consisting of 6 members from the minor, each from a different study of the TU delft. During this project, my main responsibility was to lead the group in successfully creating a game. To do so we utilised Scrum and I learned how to be the scrum master. Next to being the scrum master, I helped out with the game design, game UI and game Graphics. I also programmed an evolutionary algorithm into our game which made created a dynamic difficulty with the enemies adapting to the playstyle of the player.

An early future scenary we had was a world filled with smog. In this world we envisioned a protoble device that could help clean this smok. To communicate this world to our participants I created an AR app in Unity. This app runs on android and untilised android ARCore. The phone is put into a cardboard ar headset and shows the participants what they would normaly see but with smog placed in the world around them.

Having generated the data we set out to optimize the Roomba. To do so we wanted to create a map of how the room looks, what hotspots of the dirt are and how they changed throughout the week. With that map, we wanted to create an optimal route for the Roomba to run sometimes to only clean the hotspots of dirt and do a full clear of the room once a week. Making the Roomba overall more efficient and effective. 
To do so we split up the work, my group mates set out to create the maps using classification learning, fitting neural networks and time series neural networks. I set out to generate the optimal path for the Roomba to take through a certain room.

To play and manipulate the music we used Pure Data on the Raspberry Pi. Pure Data is a visual open-source programming language for multimedia. It gives us basic music controls, such as pause, play, forwards and backwards but also more advanced such as speeding up or slowing down the music and adding low and high pass filters.  Pure Data receives its command to apply these controls through TCP communication from a python script that is also running on the Rapsberry Pi. This python script gets input form the adruino through the serial port uses this to determine what commands to send to Pure Data.

During the first phase, the goal was to thoroughly understand how people relaxed in the context of a living room. To do so, a user test was set up where users were asked to relax inside a living room for an hour. During this time their behaviour was recorded and observed. Afterwards, they were interviews about their time and their daily lives with regards to relaxation. As an additional layer, pressure sensors were placed on the couch and covered with a blanket. This provided an additional perspective on their behaviour.