Weekly Reflection: Peer Feedback on My Project Idea

This week, I took part in a cross-disciplinary peer feedback session where students from different engineering departments discussed and reviewed each other’s project ideas. The aim of the activity was to gather constructive feedback and refine our project direction through discussion.

I presented my research project on developing a sensor-driven digital twin for collision prevention, which combines computer vision, LiDAR, and mmWave radar to evaluate safety behaviour in simulation and on a scaled hardware platform.

During the discussion, one of the group members recorded key points and recommendations while listening to my project explanation.

Figure 1: Handwritten peer feedback notes captured during the group discussion on my project idea.

The feedback focused on clarifying the core research question, justifying the use of sensor fusion over vision-only perception, and prioritising simulation-based validation before hardware integration. There was also emphasis on clearly defining the project scope and using measurable safety metrics such as Time-To-Collision (TTC).

Reflecting on this feedback, the session reinforced the importance of a simulation-first approach and confirmed the role of the digital twin as the central validation framework for the project. As a result, I refined the project structure to more clearly separate digital twin development from sensor-driven evaluation and strengthened the justification for using multi-sensor fusion.

Overall, this activity was valuable in improving the clarity, focus, and academic grounding of the project.