The One For All team jumped in full speed to the start of the spring semester and has already made great progress. The Aerial Drone has successfully been connected to an access point which will drastically help latency issues. The PiCar controls and video were successfully integrated into the UI, as well as it having full network communications with the Tello Drone.

The team needs to move hastily into the next steps of the project. Now that the PiCar and Tello Drone are properly integrated and communicate with one another more UVs need to be purchased in order to see how many can properly be integrated.

The One For All team is excited to see the reception of their project plan and testing plans for this semester and sharing it with the liaison engineers of Northrop Grumman.

Team One For All is excited to get back to their project in the new year and has already made great progress. On the software side of the project the Base UI has been developed and includes the “Smart Screen” selection. The Aerial has also been completely integrated into the UI.

Next on the hardware side of the project the first PiCar has been completely assembled, it is pictured below.

The team is excited to integrate this into the UI and continue ordering more Unmanned Vehicles. Excited to see what is in store for the One For All team in 2021!

This week, we presented our SLDR presentation to our fellow peers in order to receive some feedback before our actual presentation for our Sponsors next week. As always, the One For All team was very excited for this event and the feedback that we were going to receive. The picture below is of our team presenting to our peers.

After this presentation, we had a lot of feedback that we needed to go over. The largest of which came from our coach, Dr. Latorre. When we were going over our presentation during our coach meeting, he suggested that we should be focusing more on the final product rather than what we have done. With this suggestion, the One For All team started to brainstorm some ideas on how we can demonstrate what we have envisioned for the final project.

We sure got our work cut out for us from now until this Tuesday. But we are always up for the task!

This week the team held their Preliminary Design Report Presentation for Northrop Grumman. We spent days beforehand incorporating the feedback from our peers that we received from the peer review presentation. This involved redesigning slides, rehearsing, discussing and planning every detail of the presentation, from the order in which we would speak, to back-ups in case one of us experienced technical issues. Finally, we held our final practice on Tuesday night, and by the end of it, we were confident we had a solid presentation to show off our hard work to the engineers at Northrop Grumman.

The day finally came, and on Wednesday we gave the presentation itself. Everything went smoothly, and overall we felt that the engineers from Northrop Grumman were pleased with our design. We received some great pointers and advice from some of the engineers that were in attendance, which we believe will really help to focus our work moving forward. Now, as we look to start the process of building a functioning prototype, we can move forward with the assurance that our designs have been checked out by some of the most talented engineers in the country.

This past week has been a busy one for sure. From meeting our liaisons, Mary Alice and Jessica, to starting out initial research, this week and the last has really thrown us into the ocean with us barely knowing how to swim.

After our liaison meeting, we really started to get down to business. Within our team, we started to cast a large net over the topics of multitasking and decided to look at both multitasking technologies as well as the principles behind it. With this goal in mind, we are exploring different avenues of research in hopes of finding the most efficient solution to the problem at hand.

This upcoming week, we will refine our research efforts even further to narrow down which solution we would like to implement. Along with a couple of assignments and reports, this week will be another busy one. But One For All is ready for yet another great week.