Improving the safety and efficiency of drone-delivered packages

PROJECT OVERVIEW

Our finalized design proposal with subsystem validation

Final Design Proposal

Assembly Drawings

A full repository of assembly drawings and original parts created in Solidworks

Subsytems Analysis

Detailed descriptions of the subsystems within our final design

Project Overview

PROTOTYPE

In order to test the mechanics of our sorting mechanism and provide validation for our design proposition, we constructed a scaled prototype as pictured at right.

Video of Working Prototype >>

Code and Circuit Diagram >>

Prototype

2.7

million predicted commercial drones by 2020

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5

billion items delivered to Amazon Prime members in 2017

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68%

of the world's population projected to live in urban areas by 2050

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18.8

million apartments in the United States

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Design Process

DESIGN PROCESS

IDEA GENERATION

One of our primary idea generation tools was brainstorming by first coming up with some problems within commerical drone delivery and proposing as many solutions as we could come up with

See Idea Tree >>

DECISION MATRIX

In order to systematically evaluate our potential design projects, we generated a decision matrix which allowed us to determine a design project to pursue

See Decision Matrix >>

RISK MITIGATION

We predicted potential risks and the liklihood and impact of those risks in order to create risk mitigation plans

See Risk Mitigation >>

FUTURE DESIGN PLANS

As this was only a semester-long project, there are many areas that could use improvement. If we had more time to refine this project, we'd pursue these things.

See Future Design Plans >>

Meet the Team

Meet The Team

Amanda Aurigemma

Student at Colorado School of Mines studying Chemical and Biological Engineering

Danielle Duis

Student at Colorado School of Mines studying Civil Engineering

Andrew Kaye

Student at Colorado School of Mines studying Chemical Engineering

Sean Varga

Student at Colorado School of Mines studying Engineering Physics

Tyler Walls

Student at Colorado School of Mines studying Mechanical Engineering