design and development of an open source quadcopter for disaster management

This project deals with the design and development of an open-source quadcopter for disaster management, the quadcopter will be helpful in detecting disastrous areas and providing aid to the affected area. In real-time when a Disaster happens due to an earthquake, any construction collapse, o

Project Title

design and development of an open source quadcopter for disaster management

Project Area of Specialization

Mechatronics Engineering

Project Summary

This project deals with the design and development of an open-source quadcopter for disaster management, the quadcopter will be helpful in detecting disastrous areas and providing aid to the affected area.

In real-time when a Disaster happens due to an earthquake, any construction collapse, or in time of a flood, manpower of the disaster management team reaches there and rescues the victims; But sometimes too many areas where victims are there and they are alive but people from rescue team are not able to reach there. In this situation quadcopter can help; if a Quadcopter is flying in a disaster area then through night vision it is possible to see how many people are stuck and where they are stuck and how many of them are alive. If anywhere suddenly conflagration happens, the Quadcopter can spray water or any fire-resistant. As it has a camera with a live broadcasting system, it can easily show everything live and any rescue team or any disaster management team can take proper action. In a time of the flood, when the rescue team is not able to reach, their Quadcopter can go and can provide drinking water, proper food and medicine, so that they can survive [1]. 

[1] Gershenson, J. (2009). Capstone Design Course for NASA ESMD (No. KSC-2009-094).

                                                                    

                                                                                                                                      Figure 1 different types of disaster management using drone

Project Objectives

• Design and development of an open-source quadrotor (drone)
• Development of a real-time onboard AI-based vision system for detection of disastrous areas and to provide aid (medicine, food, etc.) to a targeted areas.

Project Implementation Method

In order to achieve the desired objectives, the project will be divided into two stages, firstly a remote-controlled quadcopter will be designed by using APM 2.8 as a flight controller which will control every part of a drone. APM 2.8 is an open-source autopilot system that has a gyroscope, accelerometer, barometer, and compass. APM 2.8 also has programmed GPS navigation. This part of the project mainly deals with the electronic section. ESC (electronic speed controller) will be used to control the speed and deliver power to Brushless Motors.

The second part of the project will mainly include coding, the coding will mainly be done in Python and for testing of code different simulation software will be used i.e. ROS, Gazebo, CoppeliaSim. To achieve ROS-based navigation on the drone Raspberry Pi will be used. Linux-based mavlink library will be used for connection of raspberry pi with APM 2.8. So after the connection of these two boards, we can use ROS, drone kit libraries, OpenCV, and other important libraries to write our own python script through which drones can perform autonomous tasks. Also, a camera will be connected to raspberry pi and by using data obtained from the camera we can do our required task. The block diagrams will be followed during the design of the project.
                                        

                                                                                                                                            Figure 2 block diagram of a quadcopter

    

Benefits of the Project

1. The quadcopter will be an open source means everyone will be having access to its code and will be able to modify and enance it. Also they will be able to operate the quadcopter without the requirement of a license.

2. This quadcopter will be helpful in detecting and managing disatrous areas by collecting aerial imagery and will permit disaster responders to quickly create usable, actionable maps, and to rapidly impact a disaster’s effects on the community.

3. The quadcopter will be helpful in providing aid to the the affected people in disastrous areas.

4. This quadcopter will reduce the work burden on rescue team by providing quick access to aid to the affected people.

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

                                                                       

Constraints

The angle between the Quadcopter frame

Length Quadcopter frame

Width of Quad copter frame

Height of Quadcopter frame

Mass

Battery

Propeller length

Propeller pitch

Propeller weight

GPS Module Dimension

RF Range

Final Deliverable of the Project

HW/SW integrated system

Core Industry

IT

Other Industries

Medical , Food

Core Technology

Robotics

Other Technologies

Artificial Intelligence(AI)

Sustainable Development Goals

Good Health and Well-Being for People, Sustainable Cities and Communities

Required Resources

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