Patent Research
Progress:
Tasks Accomplished: This week we continued our research on Patents and
through the USPTO we managed to find many new patents that related to
our main project. We also did a powerpoint explaining in depth some of
the more important patents we found, we explained ways in which what we
researched could be implemented into our drone delivery system. This
patent research took us longer than we expected but it has helped in
opening our eyes to different ideas we could implement. Things such as a
main base in various rooms that guides the drone rather than having the
drone sense on it own. With our environment being controlled there is
no need to have sensors on the drone, a simple mother base could
navigate it through the already mapped out hallways. The patents our
group members focused on were:
Gui: Containers/Receptacles
Vasil: Delivery/Design & functions of drone
Arianna: Flying vehicles/robots
Ben: Ornamental design to drone
Sebastian: Batteries (rechargeable)/Navigation
Problems Solved:
We were successful in dividing the research and
finishing up finding all the patents we could. We also managed to get in
our powerpoint on time and present to the whole class.
Lessons Learned:
This week, we strengthened our skills/knowledge in
patent research and research in general. We were also able to find new
ideas/concepts we could integrate into our final design.
New Ideas: For now like last week, our project idea remains mostly untouched. We are pretty set with what we wanna do and one of our biggest worries at this moment is finding the right drone. However, one idea I did find intriguing was the fact we could have stations in each room to navigate the drone instead of having the drone navigate itself.
Problem:
We didn’t encounter any big problem this week as we still focused on the
patent research and the group was actually able to gain control of more
patents. We solved our problem of last week with the lack of patents.
Plan:
Our plan now is to hopefully move on from the patent research and begin
more in-depth research pertaining to the overall construction of our
drone and all the coding. We are still pretty unsure where we want to
start with this project so it is up to us to stay on track and follow
our diagrams. However like I said as far as patent research we should be
done.
You should start the high-level design of your system ASAP, and come up and evaluate a few feasible solutions.
ReplyDelete1) You can have sensors in the hall way to monitor the drone and the traffic such that drone can be directed to fly to its destination.
2) Which types of sensors is best suitable for this application? You may need to do some research on existing systems.
3) What types of algorithms are suitable for this application?
4) Are you allowing multiple drones to navigate at the same time in the same hallway?