Final Report (Team)

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 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$ 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 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 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.