Currently, the most significant risks we see are the ordering of parts successfully, dealing with delivery time and ensuring that they all work for are desired use case requirements. We would like to finish our research to determine our Bill of Materials so that we can maximize our time we have available with building, testing, and integrating our project. We tried to build slack time into our current schedule to deal with issues as they come up but also creating a list of backup parts/design solutions should ensure that we are able to meet our MVP goals.
From our research, we also definitely noticed a pattern that for the testing of drone related projects, damage occurring to the physical structure or even damage to the hardware of the project is a concern. As we move further into the project we will need to think carefully about our testing processes to minimize the risk of these damages occurring such that we aren’t being constantly set back.
There are no proposed changes as of this point in our research although that could change as we finish up the research process in the coming week. If we find that certain parts of our design are unrealistic due to part availability, price, or other concerns we will definitely update our design.