In the figure above it can be seen what the total cost was for each of the two runs that Group H completed. The total cost includes how many parts were used, how much energy was needed to run the test, how long the test took, if the tasks were all completed, and any safety violations throughout the past few months.
Overall it can be seen that from the first run to the second run that Group H was able to reduce the energy and time and decrease the cost by $12,900.50 but still over the budget by a lot of money. The budget that was suppose to be reached was $500,000 and so it can be seen that energy caused a huge problem for the group.
From the first run to the second the code was changed and included taking out an extra braking command and also allowing the AEV to coast longer. This can be seen that it helped within the graphs above. The AEV was also sped up which help decrease the final cost by it not taking as long to complete the full track.
Though it was not the most efficient AEV and was more expensive than the budget it did have many strengths. The first one is that it is very small due to the fact that everything was able to be attached to the arm, as seen above. Another one is that it was very aerodynamic and it was easy to determine what was wrong and how to fix it. What could have been fixed to decrease the energy by a lot was determining a better way to place the propellors since they seemed to be fighting against each other, which could have caused more energy. Also, making it a bit safer due to so many wires being everywhere on it which could cause problems when being tested.
In the end, the design may have had a few problems and not been as efficient as possible but with a little more work and time the energy could have been reduced. With every performance test it completed the tasks perfectly and so if the energy could have just been brought down, the AEV design would have been perfect.