I think finally particle filtering algo is done. Unless Dr Hoover suggests any changes which I overlooked. I am happy that this literature review is finally over. Its the most painful part in anyones research. Its like putting one in a desert and telling him to build a city. He has no help of a town planner, no architect to help him with the design. Then after studying town planning and architecture and getting a rough idea of whats to be done one feels releaved. At least he knows whats to be done.
Now comes the interesting phase for me.... programming.... playing around with cameras.... for the 1st time in my life I hope to work with a state of the art computer vision system. The particle filtering is to be used by the staubli puma to track the ball moving in a random manner. Dr Hoover is one of the few researcher(mebbe 2-3 more exist) in the world who believe in gods view robot vision. Everything is setting up well. Dr Mcneills work is more or less done and I have to tweak the gui to look good now... after that I work in configuring the linux kernel on his PC and just administrative work.

This means less work this fall(comparatively). I am planning to work for some prof in the finance dept and learn how to manage portfolios and a bit of investment banking. After all MBA in finance is the ultimate goal.