Multi-drone coordination concept in Drone Programming - Mini Project: Build & Apply

Multi-drone Coordination Concept

📖 Scenario: You are working with a fleet of delivery drones. Each drone has a unique ID and a current battery level. You want to coordinate which drones are ready to deliver packages based on their battery levels.

🎯 Goal: Build a simple program that stores drone data, sets a battery threshold, selects drones ready for delivery, and prints their IDs.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a dictionary called drones with drone IDs as keys and battery levels as values

Create a variable called battery_threshold with a numeric value

Use a dictionary comprehension to create a new dictionary called ready_drones with drones having battery levels above the threshold

Print the list of drone IDs from ready_drones

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Drone delivery companies need to manage many drones and decide which ones can fly based on battery levels to ensure safe and efficient deliveries.

💼 Career

Understanding how to filter and manage data collections is key for roles in robotics programming, drone fleet management, and automation.

1

DATA SETUP: Create the drone data dictionary

Create a dictionary called drones with these exact entries: 'droneA': 85, 'droneB': 40, 'droneC': 75, 'droneD': 30

Drone Programming

# Create the drones dictionary with battery levels
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use curly braces {} to create the dictionary with keys and values separated by colons.

2

CONFIGURATION: Set the battery threshold

Create a variable called battery_threshold and set it to 50

Drone Programming

drones = {'droneA': 85, 'droneB': 40, 'droneC': 75, 'droneD': 30}
# Set the battery threshold
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Just assign the number 50 to the variable battery_threshold.

3

CORE LOGIC: Select drones ready for delivery

Use a dictionary comprehension to create a new dictionary called ready_drones that includes only drones from drones with battery levels greater than battery_threshold

Drone Programming

drones = {'droneA': 85, 'droneB': 40, 'droneC': 75, 'droneD': 30}
battery_threshold = 50
# Create ready_drones dictionary with drones having battery > battery_threshold
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use {drone: battery for drone, battery in drones.items() if battery > battery_threshold} to filter drones.

4

OUTPUT: Print the IDs of ready drones

Print the list of keys from the ready_drones dictionary using print(list(ready_drones.keys()))

Drone Programming

drones = {'droneA': 85, 'droneB': 40, 'droneC': 75, 'droneD': 30}
battery_threshold = 50
ready_drones = {drone: battery for drone, battery in drones.items() if battery > battery_threshold}
# Print the list of ready drone IDs
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use print(list(ready_drones.keys())) to show the drone IDs ready for delivery.