Dan (D.A.):

Regardless here’s the draft I started after class last week. This draft is mixed between autonomous docking, and the much simpler tracking tool but I suspect it should be moved over completely to developing a tracking tool to reduce the barrier to entry. Right now it’s a solution without a problem. It’s a cool tool, but we haven’t nailed the market it would be best suited for. I think mechanical engineers and hackers would make good early adopters, we could sell it as a way to quickly measure a physical object and turn it into CAD. But there might be other industries with bigger budgets- hospitals tracking tools in an operating room to reduce malpractice costs, or perhaps tracking drones as they come in to land and recharge.

 

Karthik (K.P.):

Agricultural settings?

• docking payloads/equipments and towing them to the farmland
• D.B.: require skilled driver to dock, big business in U.S. along, it could mitigate the skill requirements for the operators

 

David Bourne (D.B.):

from business -> not assume planetary setting

Towing scenario

• PA highway (turn pipe, no U-turn, very rigid road, disaster when some cars get stuck)
• AAA: human-driven  (out of gas, flat tire) / get off on a road, speeds are high, dangerous for human operators, if the stuck car does not get off the highway to the shoulder

driverless trucks docking

robotic assembly/mating (using the very similar tech. in docking), people still have no good solutions for this

instruction, manufacturing

all about mating and putting two things together are the same problem for docking, and these ideas can be applied to the entire world across a variety of different areas

MVP:

• much simpler than the project
• doing sth. very specific and introduce values to the users
• people can buy it and address some problems in some domains
• e.g. autonomous docking technology: in may domains, e.g. making a small box that can have built-in software inside and generally solve the autonomous docking for different vehicles, driverless cars, warehouse unmanned vehicles, etc.
• make a very small piece (very initial MVP), and then grow the small piece and find the roadmap
• considering the project as a pool of IPs and see how to apply the IPs to different domains
• find a focused market first, and be open to different market