Delivery Drone
VIDEO:
Design Problem:
In todays society online shopping and deliveries are a huge part of our lives, more mail and products and being delivered everyday but with that comes increased amounts of traffic.
Objective:
Our objective is to make deliveries more effective and efficient through the use of drones, using drones to deliver mail instead of cars would greatly decrease the amount of traffic and carbon emissions emitted to our planet.
Potential Customers:
Shipping companies such as FedEx and DHL.
Unique Features:
What distinguishes our idea from our competitors would be the ease of transport using drones thus leading to much faster and more efficient delivery times. Our design adds value to the community by reducing traffic and pollution.
Fly over and skip through traffic.
Use considerably less power to operate.
Could be operated safely while indoors.
Design Process:
After defining the problem and collecting information, we ended up with three ideas
Drone with a claw to hold the box
Drone that shoves contents from the side of the box.
Drone that drops contents from the bottom of the box.
After analyzing the ideas we had we came upon the decision to go with the first or last idea. The first idea seemed more feasible for cargo of heavier weights and larger sizes which our drone doesn’t have the capacity to carry. Ultimately we decided to go with the first idea and developed it into the prototype we have now.
Final Budget:
Arduino Board: 9.97$
Wiring: 3.29$
Nails: 1.79$
Motor: 2.29$
String: 0.99$
IR Remote: 6.78$
Receiver: 2.69$
Total:27.80$
Final Thoughts:
We learned a lot throughout this semester and accomplished things I never thought I could do. But the one thing I wish to do differently if I were to go back in time is to finish everything on time to have more time to update and improve upon the project, also avoid unwanted accidents and have the time to fix upon them.
References:
“DiscoverDesign Handbook.” DiscoverDesign, www.discoverdesign.org/handbook.
Delivery Drone
FSE 100: 8:35
Team 3
Members:
Saeed AlKhoori
Sultan AlKhoori
Mohammed AlDerei
Introduction:
Need:
Mail delivery is an essential part of every persons life, wether it be delivery of your electricity
bill, family letters, or simple ads, every person has mail delivered to his doorstep. The
problem with this is the need of many trucks and cars taht deliver these mails routinely and
everyday. Our need is a drone that eliminates the process of cars delivering drones
completely and does it itself.
Objective:
Supply a drone that is capable of delivering mail door to door and to be reliable enough to be
seen as a replacement to delivery trucks in the near future.
Design Requirements:
Must have battery that lasts long enough to complete a handful of deliveries.
Be able to carry a descent amount of weight around.
Reliably traverses without much need of human interaction.
Be cos.
1. Delivery Drone
VIDEO:
Design Problem:
In todays society online shopping and deliveries are a huge part
of our lives, more mail and products and being delivered
everyday but with that comes increased amounts of traffic.
Objective:
Our objective is to make deliveries more effective and efficient
through the use of drones, using drones to deliver mail instead
of cars would greatly decrease the amount of traffic and carbon
emissions emitted to our planet.
Potential Customers:
Shipping companies such as FedEx and DHL.
Unique Features:
What distinguishes our idea from our competitors would be the
ease of transport using drones thus leading to much faster and
more efficient delivery times. Our design adds value to the
community by reducing traffic and pollution.
Fly over and skip through traffic.
Use considerably less power to operate.
Could be operated safely while indoors.
2. Design Process:
After defining the problem and collecting information, we
ended up with three ideas
Drone with a claw to hold the box
Drone that shoves contents from the side of the box.
Drone that drops contents from the bottom of the box.
After analyzing the ideas we had we came upon the decision
to go with the first or last idea. The first idea seemed more
feasible for cargo of heavier weights and larger sizes which our
drone doesn’t have the capacity to carry. Ultimately we
decided to go with the first idea and developed it into the
prototype we have now.
Final Budget:
Arduino Board: 9.97$
Wiring: 3.29$
Nails: 1.79$
Motor: 2.29$
String: 0.99$
IR Remote: 6.78$
Receiver: 2.69$
Total:27.80$
Final Thoughts:
We learned a lot throughout this semester and accomplished
things I never thought I could do. But the one thing I wish to do
differently if I were to go back in time is to finish everything on
time to have more time to update and improve upon the project,
also avoid unwanted accidents and have the time to fix upon
them.
3. References:
“DiscoverDesign Handbook.” DiscoverDesign,
www.discoverdesign.org/handbook.
Delivery Drone
FSE 100: 8:35
Team 3
Members:
Saeed AlKhoori
Sultan AlKhoori
Mohammed AlDerei
Introduction:
Need:
Mail delivery is an essential part of every persons life, wether it
be delivery of your electricity
bill, family letters, or simple ads, every person has mail
delivered to his doorstep. The
problem with this is the need of many trucks and cars taht
deliver these mails routinely and
everyday. Our need is a drone that eliminates the process of
cars delivering drones
completely and does it itself.
Objective:
Supply a drone that is capable of delivering mail door to door
and to be reliable enough to be
seen as a replacement to delivery trucks in the near future.
4. Design Requirements:
Must have battery that lasts long enough to complete a handful
of deliveries.
Be able to carry a descent amount of weight around.
Reliably traverses without much need of human interaction.
Be cost-effective to enourage nation wide usage.
Background:
Self operating AI is very popular these days, and with the
begining of everyday new
technologies and advancements are accomplished in these
fields. These are alot of drones
but most of the drones that are being marketed are drones that
are use solely for
photographic purposes. Our final objective is to create a cargo
drone capable of carrying
considerable weights and in the very distant future be
completely automated.
Proposed Design:
Our current problem that we want to tackle is just delivering a
small scale mail to its
destination, and we tackled that problem by creating a small
drone that is able to carry small
boxes and drop its contents.
Bill of Materials:
1. Small Drone - 42$
5. 2. Disposable box - 0.12$
3. Arduino Board - 19$
4. Motor - 3$
5. Strings - 0.22$
6. Screws - 0.18$
Total Cost: 64.52$
Market Opportunity:
In the future we hope to deal with delivery companies and offer
them our delivery services. If
everything goes to plan and works out, the drone delivery
system will be a world changing
product.
Competitive Analysis:
The most important feature of our drone is its ability to deliver
mail. I'd say our biggest
competitors in the market would be the current delivering
companies like UPS.
Competitive Analysis:
1. In the future our drone is completely automated while
delivery trucks still need human
interaction.
2. Our drones will be powered on alternative energy and thus
help save the Earth from
carbon emissions.
3. By use of drones instead of cars, lots of traffic and carbon
emissions can be avoided.
Alternative Designs:
We had proposed two major ideas while brainstorming for this
project. The first was a drone
that releases its delivery by opening the bottom of its
6. compartment in the box below. The
second idea was to attach a claw like structure under the drone
that dropped the box as a
whole instead of dropping its contents.
Design Criteria:
Low weight cost-effective Easy to use
Design 1 2 2 2
Design 2 2 2 0
Decision Matrix:
Criteria Priority Value Design 1 Design 2
Weight 3 2 1
Ease of use 2 3 0
Cost 2 1 2
Durability 1 2 1
Conclusion:
I think the reason why people should invest in our design is the
7. potential of growth is has in
the future. The world is changing rapidly these days and new
technologies are introduced
everyday, and I sternly believe that our drone idea could heavily
reduce costs of traffic and
gas, have faster and more reliable deliveries, and eliminate
inefficiencies in regards to slow
mail delivery time. Our idea helps provide a whole new
perspective in regarding to assisting
in mailing and I would hope people support this idea.
FSE100: Introduction to Engineering
(Fall 2015 T/TH 10:30am/9am)
Title of Report
8. Prepared by
Team #/Name
FirstName LastName
FirstName LastName
FirstName LastName
FirstName LastName
25 September 2015
Contributions
Team # consisted of N people: member 1, member 2, …
The team's main goal or goals were... .
Team member 1’s tasks were... . He/She contributed xx% to
the project.
Team member 2’s tasks were... . He/She contributed xx% to
the project.
Executive Summary
The main purpose of the report is... . or The scope of the
report is... .
The major points documented/covered in this report are… for
example, design problem, solution, results, …
The major conclusions in this report are... .
The major recommendations in this report are... .
Table of Contents
9. Contributionsii
Executive Summaryiii
List of Figuresv
List of Tablesv
1Introduction1
2Background1
3Design and Implementation1
3.1Subsection1
3.1.1Sub-subsection1
3.1.2Another Sub-subsection2
3.2Another Subsection2
3.3A Third Subsection2
4Results and Discussion3
5Conclusions and Recommendations3
References3
Appendix ATitle of First Appendix4
Appendix BAnother Appendix5
List of Figures
Figure 1. Torque speed curve of a DC motor2
List of Tables
Table 1. A table of numbers1
Table 2. Another table of numbers2
v
1 Introduction
This is the introduction.2 Background
The background of the report. Reference to a book []3 Design
and Implementation3.1 Subsection
Some more text and across reference to Appendix A and
reference to a conference proceeding [2].
As a demonstration of tables, Table 1 demonstrates how certain
types of entries should appear in a table. Note that, in order to
center the numbers in the last column, three columns are given.
10. Table 1. A table of numbers
Integers
Boolean
Monetary
Text
Units
(g/mL)
Row 1
3
T
12.34
First class
0.1234
Row 2
9
F
5.67
Some more text
5.67
Row 3
23
F
890.12
Other text
89.01
Row 4
157
T
34.56
11. Even more text
2345.6
3.1.1 Sub-subsection
This section will demonstrate figures. Figure 1 shows the
torque speed curve of a DC motor.
Figure 1. Torque speed curve of a DC motor3.1.2 Another Sub-
subsection
As another example, Table 2 displays another set of numbers,
but is actually the same as Table 1.
Table 2. Another table of numbers
Integers
Boolean
Monetary
Text
Units
(g/mL)
Row 1
3
T
12.34
First class
0.1234
Row 2
9
F
5.67
Some more text
5.67
12. Row 3
23
F
890.12
Other text
89.01
Row 4
157
T
34.56
Even more text
2345.6
3.2 Another Subsection
Some text and a reference to Appendix B which contains
additional information related to this report.
3.3 A Third Subsection
This is an example of an inline equation: the formula is often
taught in first year. The integral, however, is slightly less, as is
shown by the display equation
.
This is of course centered.
Equations can be numbered, for example, it may be necessary to
refer to Newton’s second law elsewhere in the document:
13. (1)
Cut-and-paste this table if you require an equation elsewhere.4
Results and Discussion
A reference to Eq. (1)5 Conclusions and Recommendations
From the analysis in the report body, it was concluded that... .
Based on the analysis and conclusions in this report, it is
recommended that... .References
x
[1]
D. Huff, How to Lie with Statistics. New York: Norton, 1954.
[2]
D.B. Payne and H.G. Gunhold, "Digital sundials and broadband
technology," in Proc. IOOC-ECOC, 1986, pp. 557-998.
x
x
x
Appendix A Title of First Appendix
Appendix B Another Appendix
1
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15. 1
Project Deliverable: Final Design Report
Each team must submit a final design report for the design
project. The report is due on the date and time
specified on Blackboard (DO NOT TURN IT IN LATE). This
is a TEAM deliverable, and each team (one
person per team) should submit an electronic copy in pdf or
doc(x) format of the document to Blackboard.
The report is a technical document and should be typed in
paragraph form, with appropriately formatted
section headings (use bold and/or underline, and/or larger font
size). You could use the report template
posted on Blackboard or follow your own format. You should
use consistent font, style and spacing
throughout the report, as well as correct grammar and spelling.
Since this is a formal technical document,
it should follow all technical writing guidelines discussed in
class including no use of first person (I, we,
etc.), appropriate labels for figures and graphs, correct
formatting for tables and equations, and
appropriately formatted citations for all references used. Any
figures, tables, equations, or data included in
the report should be described in the text of the report. Most of
the report should be written in past tense,
since you have completed the project.
The report should include each of the sections listed below. The
expected content for each section is also
described below.
Cover Page
16. Contributions
performed by each team member and how
much percentage each individual contributes to the project
Executive Summary
conclusions and recommendations
Introduction
o Share the story of your character experiencing the pain point
(need)
o Define your point-of-view and your project objective
o Include a list of design requirements
tion of the structure/content of this document
(i.e. what will be discussed in the
document, and in what order (structure))
Background
17. for solving the problem. This could also
include other research that you did that helped you make your
design decisions. Cite sources
appropriately.
etc.). How big is your market (how
many people out there might buy your solution)? What is the
potential for market growth?
2
Design and Implementation
o Describe all important aspects of your final design (form and
function)
o Describe your solution’s important/unique design features.
How is your design different
from the others in the market?
o Describe how your design adds value in an economic,
environmental, or societal sense such
as reducing costs, increasing speed, expanding reach,
eliminating inefficiency, increasing
effectiveness, or whatever value you can think of. Use
quantitative data to support your
claims when appropriate. Describe how your design is related to
assistive technology,
accessible, or universal design.
18. o Describe the design trade-offs that you made during the
design process
o Include any evidence/rationale for design decisions (why did
you make the trade-offs that
you did?) If applicable, calculations relating design factors to
system performance can be
included as a part of Appendix 2. Be sure to direct reader to
appendix in text.
o Describe how customer feedback has influenced your design.
o Include detailed engineering drawing attached in an Appendix
(should include 3 views (top,
front side) with dimensions, units, etc.) of your final design.
Make sure to refer to (mention)
drawing in this section of your report and tell reader where to
find it (i.e. see Appendix A
for Engineering Drawing of final design). If you used a CAD
software, you can generate the
3-view drawing from the 3D model directly.
as tables, separate materials from
prototyping and final design, see table below for examples),
also include final total cost for the
project (sum of Table1 and 2), which is sum of all money spent.
Table 1: Final Design Materials and Cost
Item Description Vendor Unit Price Quantity Cost
19. Mabushi RF-370 CA-
15370 12V DC Motor
Sparkyville $1.95 1 $1.95
0.5W, 6V Solar Panel Radioshack
http://www.radioshack.com/produc
t/index.jsp?productId=12609999
$9.99 2 $19.98
Total: $21.93
Table 2: Prototyping and Testing Materials and Cost (Not Used
in Final Design)
Item Description Vendor Unit Price Quantity Cost
50-tooth Gear Sparkyville $0.70 1 $0.70
650uF Capacitor Radioshack
http://www.radioshack.com/produc
t/index.jsp?productId=12464109
$1.86 1 $1.86
Total: $2.56
Results and Discussion
he testing procedures you used (when preparing for
the final demonstration) to ensure
your design’s success. Include the testing results from these
20. tests.
performed as expected from final in-lab
demonstration.
3
Conclusions and Recommendations
at you would do differently if you had more time
or could do it over again, i.e.
potential design improvements, testing, etc.
give to someone trying to
commercialize your design, i.e., mass produce your product?
What different materials would be
used? What other changes would need to be made?
References
the report)
are
21. prefered
Style, IEEE, etc. – see
http://libguides.asu.edu/ for helpful information under
‘engineering-basic’ or your specific
discipline)
Below are three examples, pay attention to cite web resources
appropriately:
ASME: http://libraryguides.missouri.edu/mae/asmecitation
IEEE: http://www.ijssst.info/info/IEEE-Citation-StyleGuide.pdf
AIChe: https://www.elsevier.com/journals/chemical-
engineering-journal/1385-8947/guide-for-
authors#68000
Appendices
views (top, front, side) with
dimensions, units, etc.)
relevant)
Note: Each Appendix should have a clear label and title at the
top of the page (i.e. ‘Appendix A: Detailed
Engineering Drawing of Final Design’)
http://libguides.asu.edu/
http://libraryguides.missouri.edu/mae/asmecitation
http://www.ijssst.info/info/IEEE-Citation-StyleGuide.pdf
https://www.elsevier.com/journals/chemical-engineering-
journal/1385-8947/guide-for-authors#68000
22. https://www.elsevier.com/journals/chemical-engineering-
journal/1385-8947/guide-for-authors#68000
4
Final Report Grading Rubric
Topic Max Pts Score
Professional quality document (cohesiveness, flow, correct &
consistent
formatting, typed, labels for figures and tables, mostly third
person,
passive voice, etc.) NO spelling or grammatical errors
5
Cover Page (Title, Lab Day/Time, Team #/Name, Team Member
Names,
Report Submission Date)
Required
Description of Individual Contribution (including tasks
performed by each
team member and how much percentage each individual
contributes to the
project)
Required
Executive Summary (design problem, solution, results,
conclusions and
recommendations)
23. 5
Introduction (introduction to project, problem statement
including need,
objective and requirements, structure/content of document)
5
Background
logy and your
potential customers
5
Design and Implementation
function) 5
features.
How is your design different from the others in the market?
5
-offs made and evidence/rationale
supporting your design decisions
5
design 5
24. tures of final design 5
Results and Discussion
solved
the design problem
5
Conclusions and Recommendations
next
time), and recommendations for commercialization
5
References (cited in text, appropriate formatting, appropriate
sources, etc.) 5
Appendices 5
A: Detailed engineering drawing
relevant)
Total 80
25. FSE Project 2
Saeed AlKhoori
Sultan AlKhoori
Mohammed AlDerei
Project Idea:
Drone Designs:
Design One: Cardboard box attached to the bottom of the drone
what opens from the bottom.
Design Two: Claws attached to the drone that drops the whole
box.
Pros:
Efficiency and cost-saving for deliveries.
Faster and more reliable deliveries.
Energy saving.
Less traffic on the street.
Good for the environment.
Cons:
Expensive equipment.
Loss of jobs.
Susceptible to theft.
Require extensive programming to work efficiently