This past week I worked on trade studies for our BOM. Specifically for our LIDAR and chassis. I evaluated the LIDAR on metrics such as cost, sampling rate, range, and compatibility, while I evaluated the chassis on metrics such as cost, speed, layout, compatibility and weight constraints. I also researched different SLAM libraries and compatibility with our hardware.
Additionally, I worked on preparing the design presentation slides. I worked on the contents for the use case and success criteria and the technical risks and mitigation slides, and structuring the rest of the slides. Since I am presenting this time around, I will also be working on the presentation for the rest of the weekend.
In the coming week, I hope to finalise all the libraries that we will be using and start working on path planning.
Please write a paragraph or two describing how the product solution you are designing will meet a specified need with consideration of social factors. Social factors relate to extended social groups having distinctive cultural, social, political, and/or economic organizations. They have importance to how people relate to each other and organize around social interests.
RESQ is designed to help emergency responders share information when regular communications are unavailable during search and rescue ops. This matters a lot when we are looking at crowded buildings where residents might be hard to reach and account for. The cooperating phone, however, should only be used as a signal, since some victims might have a dead battery. Therefore, responders can treat the signal as a clue, and still go in after preliminary scans to search for more victims.