User:Gvsqz/ENES-100/Project 1/CDIO

Problem Statement
Determine the time required to set up the obstacle course and develop a manual on flying the Quadcopter through the course. Tutorials on flying the Quadcopter can be found on Youtube and the A.R. Drone website.

Designing and Optimizing Operations Performance, Cost, and Value
The inflatable obstacles used with the Quadcopter are the pylons, and the hoop. In order to maintain them upright, the bases of the hoop and the two pylons were filled with water.

The setup for the obstacle course takes approximately 15 minutes. As there is only one electric air pump, the pylons and the hoop cannot be inflated simultaneously. The two pylons take approximately four minutes each, and the hoop takes approximately seven minutes to inflate.

Training and Operations
The Quadcopter is flown by using the A.R. Freeflight application, which can be downloaded from iTunes and the Google Play Store and used on both iOS and Android devices, respectively.

The Quadcopter can be programmed directly from the A.R. Freeflight application. During the demonstration in the Howard Community College Galleria, the application was used to set a height limit of three meters on the Quadcopter. The Quadcopter was also on Indoor Flight Mode, and the indoor hull was used when flying it.

Next Steps
The hoop and one of the pylons have leaks. The next step would be to repair the leaks using patches or rubber cement.

Currently, the only way to add water into the pylons and the hoop is through the base, and this is time consuming and inefficient. A hose could be used in order to streamline the process.