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Our Plan

The goal of our app is to create waypoints for a connected drone to follow. The waypoints will be created based off of the gps location data provided by the phone. The current plan is to store the waypoints in a queue structure so that they will be followed in the order they are input. There will also be an input option for the altitude at which to fly, this will be optional as there will be a default value. The app will also take advantage of the collision detection already created by dji to prevent collisions on the way between the waypoints.

 

Code Update #1

The current progress of our project has been slow. The biggest hurdle we must overcome is implementing the sdk into android studio. Following the dji tutorial has led to roadblocks because it is out of date in reference to android studio. It has also been difficult to learn what everything means, there are many types of files often written in different programing languages that are all used in android programming. Once we are able to familiarize ourselves with android programming and properly implement the sdk we will likely snowball on fairly quickly. 

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11/2/2020

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Code Update #2

The progress of the the project has continued to be slow. Getting the environment setup has continued to be our biggest issue. While we have made some progress we continuously find ourselves confused at what we have to do to get our development environment working.

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11/5/2020

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Code Update #3

While we having been working on the project we have made some more progress on getting things setup. Once we get the environment ready to go we think programming should be smooth sailing. After getting some help from our professor we were able to get pointed in the right direction and we think we should be able to get an alpha build of the program ready to go soon.

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11/9/2020

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Code Update #4

We have gotten a working version of the app running after a lot of help from our professor and although we cannot find a way to get the sdk to connect the app runs on the android phone. The next step is for us to get the sdk working and to start programming functionality into the app. We also not have a drone simulator program so we do not need to physically fly the drone in real life we can simulate it for testing purposes which should make development easier for us. 

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11/15/2020

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Changing the Plan

While we originally planned to be able to set waypoints on the app and have to drone fly to set waypoints we decided to change what the app was going to do. We now are planning on just giving the drone a flight path and having it use its built in collision detection and other technologies to have it safely fly on its intended path. We think this would be easier for us to program and is not to far away from the original idea we had.

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11/15/2020