Progress
- The vast majority of this week's time was dedicated to the collection of patents relating to our project. We found interesting things such as lockheed martin and other major military corporations making most of the panel claims in these fields. It was also clear that a lot of the approaches that other people took weren't specific to commercial drones. They were more focused on military grade drones that could potentially carry payloads. This is evident because they were focusing mainly on doing one of two things; shooting down another missile, or using a net. However, all of this was very relevant and useful information that we found.. There are plenty of things which we found, such as descriptions of how to deal with the rapid aiming and launching quickly in order to intercept an object that. This past week has consisted of mainly the patent search, along with work on physics problems.
Problem
- Discovering that our project has become a proof of concept requires us to dramatically shift our focus and pick up the pace since all the time spent on designs and plans for a physical mechanism was a waste. The physics examples provided to us by Mr. Lin are quite complicated, and with our basic (albeit a bit rusty) physics knowledge, it is quite hard. However, once we are able to understand thoroughly how do get the answers and why the answers is correct, we will be knowledgeable enough to figure out which equations would be required in order to figure out the trajectory of the drone. Then once we have the equations set, we will know what information we will require of Adnan’s visual system.
Plan
- This coming week, we plan to finish the physics problems given to us by Mr. Lin, find others online, and do those in order to ensure that we have a strong understanding of the math behind projectile motion. The following week, we plan to look into adding “real-world” variables into our physics problems, such as air resistance and drag.
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