The whole development process took place at Prince Sultan University, specifically in the RIOTU Lab. Dr. Mohamed Abdelkader, Eng. Rayan Al-Akkad, and Belal Kawaf were responsible for customizing multiple drone platforms with a custom autonomy software while Ahmad Qashlan and Abdelrahman Hammad handled the mobile software development of the user interface aspect of the project. Anas Kanhouch was working on developing the ROSLink protocol, which is used as a communication and serialization protocol between the cloud on the one hand, and drones and robots on the other hand.
After just a couple of months of hard work, the lab has successfully developed the solution -- named Wassel. Wassel is a complete system that consists of a custom drone platform with a custom payload system, software that supports a fully autonomous package delivery, a fleet management system with cloud support, and a mobile application for package delivery requests.