[Grants] Grant Application from Dr Mohammad Motahar for Development of an auto pilot API for Gravity Challenge 2019

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Your Email Address: inventiontime at gmail.com
Project name: Development of an auto pilot API for Gravity Challenge 2019
Aim of the project: The aim of our project is to contribute to dronecode.org for further development of an auto pilot API for Gravity Challenge 2019 and to form a team to present our contribution as an innovative solution in Travel & Tourism industry in a hackathon challenge in Australia. The tourism and leisure industries currently use high resolution imagery and Geographic Information System (GIS) data to evaluate and assess attractions such as resorts, extreme sports arenas and provide tourists accurate up-to-date detailed mapping of their touristic destinations. we are targeting to present our work within 12 weeks hackathon in the gravity challenge conference in Adelaide (https://gravitychallenge.space ). We use PX4 which is an an open source flight control software for drones and other unmanned vehicles. PX4 provides a flexible set of tools for drone developers to share technologies to create tailored solutions for drone applications and it's part of the kitDronecode project which is a nonprofit hosted under the Linux Foundation, dedicated to fostering open-source components and their communities.
Estimated cost breakdown of the project: Major costs items includes but not limited to the following:
-Cost of Hardware: Drone, Battery hardware debug tools and Camera
-Amazon Cloud storage and EC2 Instance for hosting the solution
-Project home page, Web Design hosting and marketing of the solution and capturing the demo for the conference and all other R&D (labour costs).
We expect to spend approximately AUD $1850 on hardware, and AUD $1250 on Amazon Cloud and around $1850 on all other items which is the minimum. These estimates are based on discussions with several teams operating in this area. We are requesting funding from Linux Australia to partially cover the costs for $3000 and the rest (including any additional ongoing costs) will find a way to cover it from the other sources.
Project team details: Dr Mohammad Motahar, Computer Scientist and Lecturer at Federation University Australia
 - My master degree was relevant open source computing
 - My PhD was also relevant to open source ( An iterative project based open source ERP Training Models )
 - My Industry experience (over 16 years) is all related to open source business information systems and Business Intelligence (Compiere, Adempiere, OpenERP / Odoo, Tryton, Pentaho, Weka, etc)
 - My greatest contributions to open source in international level, I was appointed by United Nations University (HQ in Japan) as the leading global experts in the field of open source ERP and business process management (BPM) expert to develop learning materials and to conduct several training courses for groups of power users (health informatics consultants from ministry of health in various developing countries) to assist them in implementation of open source ERP in their hospitals entirely funded by United Nations.
 - I have experience of closely working with development teams that are the "most active contributors" globally reported by www.openhub.net
Shima Mostafavi, Master Degree in software engineering / data science from Staffordshire University, UK
  - Has experience in backend development
  - Holds bachelor degree in Telecommunication (satellite communication systems) perfectly matched with gravity challenge
  - Working on drone auto pilot programming
First Name: Dr Mohammad
Last Name: Motahar
Email Address: mohammad at motahar.org
A statement including a willingness to provide regular project updates on the project: We are willing to share project progress to the members of the Linux Australia community on a regular basis. We are using online collaboration tools to communicate and to further develop our solution and I am more than happy to share the project progress to Linux Australia on mailing list or any other specific updates to the council if needed. 

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