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The Phase 1 Design Paper (technical report) will consist of a written proposal submitted by each team describing the technical details of their proposed competition design. Design papers may be submitted in English or French

Link to feedback from last year’s report:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gHtfJHbEpmygk7h7YVzopYcRODNchOZK/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=111302479490249225462&rtpof=true&sd=true

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Scoring Criteria:

Design Paper

Score

Notes

Days Late

-10% per day

Applicable after 1700 EST Jan 16, 2021

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Technical Description of Unmanned System

Weight: 50

Be Sure To Include:

Analysis of Alternate Solutions

  • Frame - Brielle

  • ?Shrinjay

  • other ways the problem was approached

  • why we chose this solution

Features and Capabilities

  • Zeropilot - Dhruv

  • Computer Vision Architecture: Object detection - Ray

  • Computer Vision Architecture: Processing and Interfacing - Shrinjay, Ray

  • Camera Gimbal - Cindy, Steven

  • what makes this design special

Pick-Up/ Drop-Off Methodology

  • Grabber (Cindy)

  • what features this system has to allow for pickup and drop off of a range of design shapes

  • how this process occur gently, accurately and at a distance

Automation

Comms & Control : Aaditya, Kaveet, Anthony, Dhruv

  • Telemetry Architecture

  • Inter thread communication on Autopilot

  • Video streaming

BVLOS:

  • Automated Takeoff and Landing

  • Autonomous Taxi (Shrinjay)

  • Autonomous Identification of humans (Ray)

  • how we meet the requirement for automated launch/flight to the intruders

Noise Signature

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  • what UAV and/or navigational strategies are we using to minimize noise?

Safety

Sahil

  • How we intend to avoid colliding with things

  • Any other safety systems implemented

System Level Testing

  • Flight tests - ?Sahil

  • Firmware Tests (Dhruv)

  • testing process implemented during development and in preparation for practice flights and scenarios

Technical Innovation and Novelty

Weight: 10

Be Sure To Include:

Novel Approach to Mission Requirements

  • How overall and individual strategy for completing tasks is novel. (NOT talking about technologies required - that’s something else)

Novel Elements?

  • Novel technology systems in the overall system. (What does our UAS have that make sit novel in the execution of the Tasks)

Safety and Risk Management

Weight:15

Be Sure To Include

System Level Safety Issues

*will go under ‘Safety’ later

  • What safety issues are important

  • How we are addressing them

Single Point Failure Modes

*will go under 'Safety' later

  • What failure modes we anticipate

  • How we are addressing them

Risk Management Plan

  • delegated across leads?

  • What risks exist that may affect ability to successfully compete in Southport

  • How we are addressing these risks

  1. Risk categories should include technical, programmatic, budget, and/or others. Risk planning must include:

    1. Identification of the risk;

    2. Likelihood that the risk will happen;

    3. Impact on the project if the risk occurs; and

    4. Measures you will take to reduce the likelihood of the risk and to mitigate its effects if it does happen.

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