Initial Planning & Coordination

• Project Description & Merits

Describe the project in your own words and list the possible contribution your project can have to advance the field of STEM or solve societal problems.

   - Our project is to design and develop a method of neutralizing an enemy drone, ideally without damaging it. The contributions out project could make to the field of STEM depends on the method we end up using to take down drones. However, the societal problems to be solved are the possible problems we may face in the future where drones are a big part of society, they could easily be used illegally; a method of stopping them is necessary.

• Group/Team Communication

Who will be involved in your project (team) and relevant projects (group)? How to communicate effectively with each other? What are the tools for project collaboration?

    - Our team consists of Henry and Eduardo, linked to the group of Adnan and Noah. A big goal in our project might be to make the drone neutralization autonomous and in order to do that, visual detection would be necessary, that's where Adnan and Noah come in. Discussion on how to develop a detection method would be how we collaborated. We'd need to update each other on milestones.

• Technology Analysis

Identify the scientific and technical knowledge/skills involved in your project.

     - The knowledge involved in our project will vary depending on which path we go down for the take-down method. The definitely necessary knowledge includes a basic understanding of physics, VEX robot design and programming using robot c, as well as Parrot Drone controls whether manually or autonomously.

• Competence

Identify skill sets, technical competence in your group, and list the missing ones which need to be acquired.

     - Again, this depends on which method we decide to attempt. However, we have a working knowledge of both robot c and the drone programming which is similar to python. What's missing is  sufficient PID controller knowledge. 

• Safety

      - No risk. 

• Equipment, materials & budget

    - Equipment includes a parrot drone, VEX robot kit, laptop. It's unclear if any items will need to be purchased.

• Schedule

    - Our current main goal is to determine which area of drone take down we'd like to pursue, and then make a schedule for the coming weeks of working on that.