Thursday, September 25, 2014

Drone Delivery Service Progress Report

This week our group searched for the tools that we would potentially need for our project.  Choosing the drone was a major issue because we need to make sure it can carry the weight, it is compact, can be programable to be autonomous and do much more.  So far we have found some candidates for drones such as the Parrot Bebop Drone (http://www.parrot.com/usa/products/bebop-drone/).  The problems we have encountered this week is basically how we will be able to program the drone and whether or not we should use Raspberry Pi.  Our plan for the following week is finalize which drone to use and to conduct further research on it.  Once we are able to do that we can figure out what program tool whether it be Raspberry Pi or something else. 

Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Weekly Progress Report

Project groups are required to maintain Weekly Progress Report about their progress. The report is due every Thursday. The writing should be clear and concise. The following list is a template for your report.

  • Progress: list of tasks accomplished, problems solved, questions answered, lessons learned, new idea identified, etc. Include any images and/or videos of your experiments, presentations and/or documents of your results, links and/or printing references, and acknowledgements of external support.
  • Problem: difficulties encountered, missing information, equipments required, materials missed, open issues, new risks or show stopper identified, etc.
  • Plan: steps to attack the problems, action items, experiments to conduct, ideas to try, etc. Show your schedule and task assignment for each group member for the coming week.