Design and development of an autonomous multi purpose drone delivery mechanism and charging post

Our project is basically focused on providing a reliable drone delivery system that would minimize manual assiatance. Drones have some issues with them that includes charging time,range and manual handling.Our project will address these issues thats why it is a multupurpose project.In the domain of

Project Title

Design and development of an autonomous multi purpose drone delivery mechanism and charging post

Project Area of Specialization

Mechanical Engineering

Project Summary

Our project is basically focused on providing a reliable drone delivery system that would minimize manual assiatance. Drones have some issues with them that includes charging time,range and manual handling.Our project will address these issues thats why it is a multupurpose project.In the domain of our project first is to develop a delivery mechanism that will be used to pick up (hold) a deliverable from a location and lose (deliver) that on the desired location. All this delivery mechanism will be autonomous , a program will be developed for the drone so that it can get a message from the user that from where he wants to pick up the deliverable and where to drop that.A google or GPS system would be used to locate the locations. Second is the developments of charging posts for our drone that would also be autonomous when ever the drone lands on that post it would organize the drone on the post and would put it on the charging thus minimizing manual assistance and indirectly increasing the rage of the drone. Let us take an example consider a college campus where there are multiple buildings like departments , cafes , administrative offices and hostles etc .Now if we apply our project in this campus then a charging post would be placed on each building ,suppose if a student wants to get something delivered from the cafe to his hostel he would send a message using an app. Drone would receive that message it would pick up the parcel from the cafe and would land on the charging post of his hostle and would lose that parcel there , during all this process when drone is not on any mission it would be staying on the charging post thus keeping it up to the mark.In a similar fassion documents and other thing's delivery can be made possible in closed campuses and eventually leading to sustainable modern cities.

Project Objectives

Our objectives include

1) Minimization of manual assiatance:

                                                             Since drone handling would be through a program instead of a man handling it through a remote controller and charging of drone would also be automated so it would reduce human labour

2) Increasing drone range:

                                           Since charging posts would also be manufactured that would help the drone to get it self charged when it is not on any mission. Drone would keep in check its charging level and when ever charging is low it would automaically place itself on the post and get it self charged , thus indirectly increasing its range since the time to put the drone to charge would also be saved.

3) Revolutionizing delivery system:

                                                        Recent delivery systems uses vechicles like bikes and cars that consumes a lot of fuel our way would help to reduce this fuel comsumption and would also be quicker than these convential ways

4) Eventually self-sustainable cities: 

                                                        Our project would eventually lead to a more self-sustainable cities program where deliveries would be done through automated drones.Thus leading to the development of a medern city.

EXTRA POINT 5) Survillance :

                      As the title of the project "multi-purpose" suggests drone would also be able to provide survilance as the system is completely auomated an addition of a movie camera to the drone would make it in to survilance drone in addition to the delivery purpose.

Project Implementation Method

implementation method follows through literature review where different already available solutions would first be studied , then after some modifications and moldings that knowledge would be refined , software programs would be made along with the designing and analysis of the components like delivery mechanism and charging post mechanism would also be done. then manufacturing of these components would be taken into action and then a complete prototype would be made (assembled) into action and at the end obviously a complete thesis of our project would be formalized.

Benefits of the Project

1) it would reduce human labour.

2) delivery timinngs would be reduced.

3) fuel consumption through conventinal ways of delivery can be reduced.

4) Manual assistance for flying the drone would not be needed.

5) drones would be capable of charging themselves automatically without manual assistance.

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

our project would be dealing with the technical challenges for drones like :

1) Landing accuracy: 

                                This challenge would be delt by using GPS or googles positioning assistance and for accurate landing a technology called infrared positioning system would be used.

2) Weight proportions.

                                   This is also a big challenge and would be dealed by making special delivery containers , the deliverables would be placed inside of it , and the drones would be entitled to take those containers from one place to the other, thus not shifting the center of gravity for the drones and having a smooth flight.

3) Responsive grasping and losing mechanism.

                                                                          A mechanism using LDR( light dependent resistor ) would be used that would work efficiently to grasp the deliverable container and to lose it on the desired location.

4) Increasing working active hours.

                                                       Since a charging post would also be made so that the time that was required to put the drone on charging would be saved thus increasing the active working hours for the drone . whenever the drone is not on any delivery mission it would be charging itself on these posts . these posts would be specially designed so that they can assemble automatically the drone in the proper charging orientation. Weight Sensors would be used to give the charging post a signal whenever a drone lands on it.

FINAL DELIVERABLE:

It would include:

1) A hardware charging post.

2) A hardware delivery mechanism.

3) A software for assigning picking and droping location for the drone.

Final Deliverable of the Project

HW/SW integrated system

Core Industry

Transportation

Other Industries

Manufacturing , Others , Security

Core Technology

Robotics

Other Technologies

Artificial Intelligence(AI), Others

Sustainable Development Goals

Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Sustainable Cities and Communities

Required Resources

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