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Leden
- Luc Bams
- Frederique Kroos
- Karen Schmit
- Tim Treurniet
Weekly Update
Week 1
This week we decided on a topic: Amazon Prime Air Delivery System. We plan to analyze the techniques behind drone navigation & how the packages are delivered, compare and contrast this system to the current delivery system by truck, assess safety, propose possible future scenarios and their feasibility, and see how this influences enterprise, society and individuals. If it is all possible...that we will have to see.
Important Tasks &/or deadlines: Presentation Monday about subject,objectives & approach. Create a tentative plan.
Feedback
The class and professors gave us some good food for thought: Find a more concrete question we want to answer. Overall good thoughts and questions about "drone delivery", but what is the core of what we want to analyze/find out. Also form a more concrete approach ie. where are you going to find sources, from whom, what kind, etc.
Week 2
Upon having our meeting on Thursday we came to the conclusion that the sources required vs the sources available to do such an analysis on the feasibility of commercial drone delivery were a little limited. We came back to the original idea to design a mailbox for such deliveries under the assumption that drone package delivery will be there in the future. See Problem Definition.
Furthermore this week's tasks include Background Research to help use create a list of requirements & constraints for the design:
Research includes:
- how package deliveries are currently done for apartment complexes,
- possible laws and regulations on flying heights of drones
- package sorting systems (automated and non)
- safety concerns in regards to drones and package delivery
Anything found that can contribute to a more accurate design will also be stated.
We hope that in week 3 we can have a list of requirements & brainstorm a design.
File:Presentation- Week 2.pdf - 15/09
Feedback:
After presenting on Monday, there were still some questions on what specifically our "research question" was. Also several tips were provided to tweak our planning such as: Build Plan and Test Plan should finish at the same time so you know what you're building to test.
Fortunately, we did get the green light on our project, so we may start. As long as we tweak what is necessary by next week.
Week 3
Tasks this week: Brainstorm ideas/concepts for our mailbox, Tweak planning & research question so that it is complete.
Further Update:
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