PRE2023 3 Group5

Medical Robot

Group Members

Name	Student ID	Department
Yuting Dong	1546104	Computer Science
Jie Liu	1799525	Computer Science
Zhiyang Zhang	1841734	Mechanical Engineering
Samir Saidi	1548735	Computer Science
Feiyang Yan	1812076	Computer Science
Nikola Mitsev	1679759	Computer Science

Approach

In order to reach the objectives, we split the project into 5 stages. The five stages are distributed into 8 weeks with some overlaps. Everyone in the team is responsible for some tasks in these stages.

1. Research stage: In week 1 and 2, we mainly focus on the formulation of problem statements, objectives, and research. We first need to make a plan for the project. The direction of this project is fixed by defining the problem statement and objectives. Doing literature research helps us to gather information of state-of-the-art, the advantages and limitations of current solutions.
2. Requirements stage: From week 2 to week 4 we will do user analysis to further determine the goal and requirements of our product. We will collect information about user needs by surveys and interviews. The surveys and interviews can contain information found in the research stage. For example, how does the user think about the current solution, what improvements can be made.
3. Specification stage: This stage is in week 3 and 4, in which we create the specification of our product using techniques such as UML diagrams and drawing user interface. From the user analysis and the research, we can create the specification in more detail. After this, a test plan will be made so that the product can be tested to see whether it meets the requirements and the specification.
4. Implementation stage: The prototype of our product will be implemented in this stage from week 5 to week 7. We plan to only create the digital part of the product due to time constraints. Also, a more formal test plan will be constructed for later use.
5. Testing stage: In week 7 and 8, the prototype will be tested by the test plan and we can examine whether the product reaches our goal and solves the problem. The finalization on the prototype, presentation and wiki page will be done in this stage.

Planning

We created a plan for the development process of our product based off of the previously described approach. This plan is shown in the Gantt chart below:

A Gantt chart of our development plan.

Task Division

We subdivided the tasks amongst ourselves as follows:

Research			Requirements			Specification			Implementation			Testing
Task	Group member		Task	Group member		Task	Group member		Task	Group member		Task	Group member
Define problem statement and objectives	Everyone		User Analysis	Jie		Create UML Diagrams	Everyone (TBD)		Implement the prototype	Everyone (TBD)		Test the prototype	Everyone (TBD)
Setup the Wiki page	Yuting		Create Survey	Jie & Feiyang		Define user interface	Everyone (TBD)		Create formal acceptance test plan	Everyone (TBD)		Work on presentation	Everyone (TBD)
Literature research	Everyone		Analyse Survey	Jie & Feiyang		Make a test plan	Everyone (TBD)		Finalize prototype	Everyone (TBD)
Write Section "Approach"	Yuting		Write Formal Requirements	Everyone (TBD)		Finalize wiki	Everyone (TBD)
Write Section "Planning"	Samir
Write Introduction	Zhiyang
Write Section "State of the Art"	Samir & ... (TBD)
Perform Stakeholder Analysis	Everyone
Update Wiki	Everyone

Milestones

By the end of Week 1 we should have a solid plan for what we want to make, a brief inventory on the current literature, and a broad overview of the development steps required to make our product.

By the end of Week 3 we should have analysed the needs of our users and stakeholders, formalized these needs as requirements according to the MoSCoW method, and have a clear state-of-the-art.

By the end of Week 4 we should have specified the requirements as UML diagrams, blueprints, etc., created a basic user interface, and created an informal test plan.

By the end of Week 6 we should have created a formal acceptance test plan.

By the end of Week 7 we should have finished the implementation of our product's prototype.

By the end of Week 8 we should have tested the product according to the acceptance test plan, finished the presentation, finalized the prototype, and finalized our report.

Deliverables

The final product will be an Android application, representing the user interface, intended to be used alongside a physical robot which we will specify and try to (partially) implement.

The application will have two views, one for the patient/user, and one for the caretaker/doctor.

The robot will be equipped with a variety of sensors which will relay data to the application and should be capable of interacting with the user(s) and caretaker(s).

Logbook

Week 1

Name	Total hours	Tasks
Yuting	4	Introduction lecture (1), meeting (1.5), Approach section (1.5)
Jie
Zhiyang
Samir	5	Introduction lecture (1), meeting (1.5), Gantt chart (1), Planning section (1.5)
Feiyang
Nikola