The team work breakdown structure has 4 levels. The first is the autonomous ocean recovery vehicle system. Level 2 breaks down to the activities of the system which include program management, system integration, and the three subsystems Mechanical, Electrical, and GCS. Level 3 then further breaks it down to the tasks for each activity. Level 4 then shows the subtasks that are focused on for each task.
Program management will focus on project management and managing finances. The Mechanical and Electrical subsystem tasks are to do the necessary research for their subsystem; design their section of the recovery vehicle; order the materials and components needed for their respective subsystem; manufacture and create their designs; integrate with each subsystem; and test the system. The GCS subsystem will focus on design of the launch and recovery mission; integration with the rest of the subsystems; and then finally testing.
For system integration, the system integrator will oversee the assembly, integration, and testing of the entire recovery vehicle. The UHABS-7 team will be implementing a systems engineering approach, so the order of tasks is not strictly sequential. There will be iterations between each task to mitigate potential failures and unexpected problems, especially during the integration and testing tasks.
