PRE2024 3 Group10

Jamin, joost, loes en norah en tom

Users and their needs

Primary users:

• With our research, environmental Cleanup Organizations will gain access to new robotic solutions, improving their ability to achieve the goal of removing plastic and debris from the oceans. They require reliable and efficient robot designs that can handle different situations and different kinds of ocean debris. In addition, the solution should be cost effective to fit into their budgets.

• Government agencies gain new tools for ocean cleaning policies and reducing nature pollution, creating public recognition for addressing environmental issues and increasing their support base. They would require robots that comply with national regulations, for example in terms of safety. In addition, they would require enough research data and actual results to justify government funding.

• Non-profit groups would gain examples of current research and solutions for ocean cleanup, to attract possible donors for their organisation. For that, they would require easy-to-understand and transparent results to showcase.

Secondary users:

• Researchers could gain new insights on possibilities to clean up the ocean, helping them to improve their results as well. Therefore, they would require access to our research and data.

• Engineers could get inspired to build the design, or even improve it. Also, they can gain insight into struggles we found, incorporating it into their own work. For this, they would require technical specifications of the design, and the feedback and evaluation of the research.

• Policymakers would gain additional evidence to support their policies and funding decisions. For this, they need accessible reports and results and a low-cost solution.

We as a group decided to work in between with a OneDrive.

The OneDrive can be accessed via https://tuenl-my.sharepoint.com/:f:/g/personal/l_kirkels_student_tue_nl/Ev3UBVOtfktApfNvxowBf-YBFpdR1uAtqIWQzg_Px7CosQ?e=URlCi2

• Problem statement and objectives

• Who are the users?

• What do they require?

• Approach, milestones and deliverables

• Who’s doing what?

• SotA: literature study, at least 25 relevant scientific papers and/or patents studied, summary on the wiki!

Each group has plan ready after Week 1

• Plan contains subject, objectives, users, state-of-the-

art, approach, planning, milestones, deliverables, who

will do what

• Publish plan onto the wiki!

• Feedback and discussion with tutors (20 min/group)

/ faculteit werktuigbouwkunde

Please mail us, m.j.g.v.d.molengraft@tue.nl,

l.m.m.royakkers@tue.nl

before end of Thursday, February, 13:

- Subject

- Group number

- Members

− name, student ID, email address

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