Inspection of infrastructure in Drone Programming - Mini Project: Build & Apply

Inspection of Infrastructure

📖 Scenario: You are programming a drone to inspect a set of infrastructure points such as bridges, towers, and pipelines. The drone needs to check each point's status and decide if it requires maintenance based on a damage score.

🎯 Goal: Build a simple program that stores infrastructure points with their damage scores, sets a damage threshold, filters points that need maintenance, and prints the list of points requiring maintenance.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a dictionary with infrastructure points and their damage scores

Set a damage threshold value

Use a loop or comprehension to find points needing maintenance

Print the list of points that require maintenance

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Drones inspecting infrastructure help find problems early to keep bridges, towers, and pipelines safe.

💼 Career

This project shows how to process sensor data and make decisions, skills useful for drone programming and maintenance automation jobs.

1

Create infrastructure data

Create a dictionary called infrastructure with these exact entries: 'Bridge A': 3, 'Tower B': 7, 'Pipeline C': 5, 'Bridge D': 2, 'Tower E': 8

Drone Programming

# Create the dictionary 'infrastructure' with the given points and damage scores
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use curly braces {} to create a dictionary with keys as point names and values as damage scores.

2

Set damage threshold

Create a variable called damage_threshold and set it to 5

Drone Programming

infrastructure = {'Bridge A': 3, 'Tower B': 7, 'Pipeline C': 5, 'Bridge D': 2, 'Tower E': 8}
# Create the variable 'damage_threshold' and set it to 5
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Just assign the number 5 to the variable damage_threshold.

3

Find points needing maintenance

Create a list called needs_maintenance that contains the names of points from infrastructure where the damage score is greater than damage_threshold. Use a list comprehension with point and score as variables in for point, score in infrastructure.items()

Drone Programming

infrastructure = {'Bridge A': 3, 'Tower B': 7, 'Pipeline C': 5, 'Bridge D': 2, 'Tower E': 8}
damage_threshold = 5
# Create the list 'needs_maintenance' using a list comprehension
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use a list comprehension to check each score and include the point if the score is greater than damage_threshold.

4

Print points needing maintenance

Write a print statement to display the list needs_maintenance

Drone Programming

infrastructure = {'Bridge A': 3, 'Tower B': 7, 'Pipeline C': 5, 'Bridge D': 2, 'Tower E': 8}
damage_threshold = 5
needs_maintenance = [point for point, score in infrastructure.items() if score > damage_threshold]
# Print the list 'needs_maintenance'
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use print(needs_maintenance) to show the points that need maintenance.