Design Development and Testing of Networked Quadcopters

The project aims to design and develop a network of quadcopters. The quadcopters are individually designed considering the flight controller, motors and other modules to be interfaced. The flight controller will consist of a microcontroller unit along with different interfaces and buses for

Project Title

Design Development and Testing of Networked Quadcopters

Project Area of Specialization

Robotics

Project Summary

The project aims to design and develop a network of quadcopters. The quadcopters are individually
designed considering the flight controller, motors and other modules to be interfaced. The flight controller
will consist of a microcontroller unit along with different interfaces and buses for the intercommunication
of different subsystems and modules allowing for the In-Circuit Programming of the controller. One of the
quadcopter will be the leader and the other will be the follower. In other words, the network of the
mentioned quadcopters will be a leader-follower configuration. The goal is make the hardware design of
both the quadcopters and program the microcontroller to interface the required modules for the
communication between the quadcopters and the host computer. The quadcopters will relay its position
to the host computer and the relative quadcopter while the flight controller of each quadcopter will
generate the required command to keep the leader follower formation intact. This project is the very
first step of a drone swarm.

Project Objectives

Main objective
Hardware development of leader follower network of the quadcopters.

Sub objectives
1. Hardware development of the quadcopters
2. Localization of the quadcopters in 3D space
3. Wireless communication of quadcopters to maintain the leader follower formation.

Project Implementation Method

The methodology of the project includes;

the development of Quadcopters, in which the Quadcopters are designed and developed to be robust enough to add multiple projects. This also includes the design and devlepment of the flight controller using microcontroller and different modules i.e. MPU6050, HMC5811, GPS module and Air Pressure module.

the locallization of the Quadcopters in 3D space, in which the combination of GPS and Air Pressure modules are to be used onboard to get the coordinates of the Quadcopters in 3 dimensional Space with more accuracy.

communication between the quadcopters, which will be done using wifi modules to relay the position/coordinates of the follower quadcopter to the leader Quadcopter and from leader Quadcopter to the Ground Station and vice versa.  

Benefits of the Project

• Multi angle videography and photography
• Multi angle surveillance
• Autonomous flight no need to pilot
• First step of a drone swarm
• Advertisement

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

Batter timing of Quadcopter = 18min

Thrust per motor of a Quadcopter = 0.8kg

GPS Accuracy = +-2m

Communition range between Quad-copters = 20 meters (Radius)

Altitude Accuracy = +-1m

Payload = 250grams

Communition range between leader Quad-copter and Ground Station = 500m (Radius)

Final Deliverable of the Project

HW/SW integrated system

Core Industry

Others

Other Industries

Core Technology

Robotics

Other Technologies

Sustainable Development Goals

Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Required Resources

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