Goals

Winter Quarter prototype Goals:

  • Manual flying of quadcopter; captures should be sent to a mobile app on a phone connected to the DJI controller. (February 22, 2016)
  • Server will perform OCR recognition on picture (no segmentation / locating of license plate until waypoint functionality is setup in Spring Quarter). (February 29, 2016) Note: utilizing OpenALPR open-source library
  • Communication between mobile app and server. (February 29, 2016)
  • Server database and server code setup to receive process received images (February 29, 2016)
  • Server business logic (March 9, 2016)
  • Mobile push notifications. (March 9, 2016) NOTE: Deliverable scrapped

Spring Quarter Goals:

  • Finish basic notifications if necessary. (April 1, 2016)
  • Safe autonomous flying & picturing. (May 1, 2016)
  • Locating of license plate in an image using segmentation for autonomous mode. (May 1, 2016) Note: OpenALPR handles this
  • Waypointing w/ autonomous flying. (May 8, 2016)
  • Customer text notifications. (April 15, 2016)

Extra Credit:

  • Drone Feed. (May 15, 2016)
  • Query tool on app (website?) to check on current parked cars. (June 1, 2016)
  • Handling erroneous data / reading errors. (June 1, 2016)
  • Scanning to find open spots and post to website for users to check to save parking time. (June 8, 2015)