Work Breakdown

This section lays out the tasks planned for each of our functional subsystems and project management.

High-level Work Breakdown

 

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 Detailed Work Breakdown

 

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Project Planning, Continuity and Delivery tasks

Initial Planning

  • Define scope of the project and the requirements.
  • Conduct trade studies for parts and approaches.
  • Finalize functional, performance and cyber-physical requirements.

Project Continuity

  • Develop and maintain project website.
  • Design Fall and Spring demo.
  • Procure parts.
  • Fall demo preparation.
  • Field Tests.
  • Spring demo preparation.

Project Delivery

  • Deliver Conceptual Design Review.
  • Deliver Preliminary Design Review.
  • Deliver Critical Design Review.
  • Fall Demo.
  • Spring Demo.

Subsystem Tasks

Autonomous Flight System

  • Ramp-up on Hexcopter operability.
  • Demonstrate waypoint navigation in a controlled environment (as per FVR).
  • Demonstrate waypoint navigation in a larger environment  (as per SVR).

Sensing

  • Finalize type and model of sensors to be used by conducting trade studies.
  • Test/Validate sensors independently to ensure they meet performance requirements.
  • Software to extract and process data for 1 sensor and associate coarse location and time information with the data.
  • Build payload with all sensors.
  • Test/Validate system to generate highly accurate sensor data keyed by spatio-temporal information.
  • Software to extract and process payload data.

Localized Pattern Navigation

  • Design strategy for localized navigation pattern.
  • Software for planning localized navigation pattern with acceptable sensor coverage (as per FVR).
  • Software for planning localized navigation pattern with high quality sensor coverage (as per SVR).
  • Software for planning localized navigation pattern for rescue operation to drop packet accurately (as per SVR).

Rescue assembly system

  • Evaluate and finalize the design and actuators for rescue assembly mechanism.
  • Fabrication of mechanical structure and test functionality independently.

Global waypoint generation

  • Software to generate optimal navigation path based on simplified coordinate input in a constrained environment (as per FVR).
  • Software to translate region information from a Global Map to specific GPS coordinates for a large environment (as per SVR).

Signature detection and analysis

  • Finalize set of signatures to be used for detection.
  • Collect data and evaluate techniques for signature detection.
  • Build a rudimentary signature detection module (as per FVR).
  • Software for integration of the module with data obtained from payload sensors.
  • Collect large amount of data to train more accurate models.
  • Build advanced signature detection module (as per SVR)
  • Performance optimizations/scaling to operate within acceptable time (as per SVR).

Integration Tasks

  • Design and fabricate mountings for sensors (if required).
  • Test flight with preliminary sensors.
  • Implement data collection pipeline to transfer data from aerial subsystem to base station.
  • Test end-to-end system for search only operation (as per FVR).
  • Payload sensor integration and calibration during flight.
  • Interface sensor payload with onboard processor.
  • Integrate rescue drop assembly with Hexcopter and onboard processor.
  • Test end-to-end system for search and rescue operation (as per SVR).