SWE Project #1: H. A. B. I. T. - Hypothetical Autonomous Biological Identification and Tracking Drone

 A small hypothetical project that I devised from COVID-19. A laboratory was not required for this project. Actual virus samples of COVID-19 or other viruses were not used for this project. A working software simulation may possibly follow. 

Standard software engineering rules of flowcharting were not used. I simply plotted behavior and filled in the pieces. In a more refined piece of software, Unified Modeling Language (UML) would be used to illustrate the software. 

I noticed COVID-19 was behaving erratically in that it was spreading very fast. When most things behave erratically, for example cars, it means there is a component missing or something is wrong with a component in the system.

Given COVID-19's fast uncontrolled spreading, I hypothesized that it was missing a module equivalent to that of a car's steering wheel. I devised a 'steering wheel' for it by creating a hypothetical missing module. That module's purpose is to identify a specific host.

This SWE project is in the design phase. The design is the easy part. This is only a hypothetical model.

The HABIT project is before the COVID-19 Delta variant. The scenario in which the Delta variant exists, is covered by the HABIT project, so it and other variations pose no challenge. The Stabilizer Modules takes care of the Delta variant as well as other possible variations of COVID-19.

The HABIT software program solves an interesting problems. It is:

1. Finding a person anywhere in the world using unconventional passive technology. This just means that HABIT will operate autonomously until it finds the DNA match it is searching for as it travels. This problem assumes there is no other technology including social media to find the target person. HABIT can be deployed wherever rapid DNA matching is needed. To put it succinctly, if you need to find a person 'living' inside a cave in some remote mountain region and you have a DNA sample with no other clues or technology available, HABIT should be able to do it.