{"id":11373,"date":"2018-05-15T12:02:11","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/?p=11373"},"modified":"2018-05-15T12:30:59","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:30:59","slug":"pizzas-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/2018\/05\/pizzas-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Pizza’s Here!"},"content":{"rendered":"\"Illustration<\/a>\n

Engineers working on Amazon\u2019s Prime Air system, which promises to deliver goods via drones, have some competition at the Whiting School<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hopkins Delivers<\/strong> is a team of eight undergraduate and graduate engineering students who are developing a system that can shuttle food\u2014from the Bamboo Caf\u00e9\u2019s donburi to tuna melts from Caf\u00e9 Azafran\u2014to hungry customers across the Homewood campus.<\/p>\n

But they\u2019re starting simply. \u201cOur initial goal is to have our drone fly a pizza from Hackerman Hall to the Wyman Park Building by the end of the spring semester,\u201d says master\u2019s student Nuo Xu<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Engineering a system that autonomously picks up, navigates, and drops off a package at the intended destination presents many daunting engineering challenges, notes mechanical engineering<\/a> major Guohao Sun<\/strong>. \u201cThere is a lot of equipment that needs to be integrated into the drone to achieve autonomous navigation and image recognition, as well as package pickup and drop-off mechanisms.\u201d<\/p>\n

Add to that the need to perfect the drone\u2019s collision avoidance algorithm and GPS system, as well as to do consumer research, create a marketing and advertising plan, and get local restaurants on board. \u201cThe idea is welcomed by some area restaurants,\u201d says master\u2019s student Yu Yang<\/strong>, \u201cbut we need to communicate with them further.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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