Ground Station Design and Development for Autonomous Quadcopter

Project Title

Ground Station Design and Development for Autonomous Quadcopter

Project Area of Specialization Electrical/Electronic EngineeringProject Summary             Autonomous Quadcopter

We are developing an autonomous quadcopter(drone). The quadcopter was controlled by the ground station which gives the commands to the quadcopter to perform the assigned task. 

Our quadcopter function was to spray the fields. The map of the field was generated from google earth where the user enters the coordinates of their fields just by drawing the lines using their finger. Then quadcopter flies according to the path specified using the ground station and sprays the fields. 

Project Objectives  Making Autonomous Quadcopter        and Cheap

1. Autonomous Quadcopter
2. Cheap
3.  Open Source

Our main objective of the final year project(fyp) was to make an autonomous quadcopter that was not flown by remote but autonomously. And at a low cost so an ordinary person can buy it.

1.We want to develop a self-flying drone because we want every person can fly it. Even If they didn't see a drone in their life before. Not they are able to fly it but use it for their daily life work one on which we are working (Spraying field).

2. We want to develop a cheap drone so every ordinary man can buy it. They just to pay the price of hardware and software price was very low. 

3. Our work was open source and other peoples also make their own drones by following our project work.

Project Implementation Method                         4 Phases

The project consists of the following phases:

1. Software
2. Communication
3. Hardware
4. Integration of three phases (1+2+3)

1st Phase:  In the first phase we develop the ground station for our quadcopter. It will be done in 3 months. We use C# language and .NET Framework to develop our software.

It will also be done in steps. first, we work on the backend and database and make a simple frontend. After checking the working of software either it was working on our expectations then after we will fully develop it.

2nd Phase: In the second phase we will work on how communication will be done between software and drone.

3rd Phase: In the third phase we attach the sensors with our quadcopter and other things for its communication. In this Phase, we will be working on flight range, its stability, and taking spray for the fields.

4th Phase: In the last Phase we will combine all three phases together and flying an autonomous quadcopter which was spraying the fields according to your direction.

Benefits of the Project               Easy to use

The main beneficiary of the project was the public. Because it was a public-friendly project. The people don't need to first learn how to fly the drones and if they want to do some work like spraying crop fields they didn't need to first practice how they did this job. And there was a greater risk of crashing the drone if it was mishandled. 

Our drone was just software control they just need to give commands and our drone did the task.

              Low Cost

It will help farmers to save their money which they previously spent on giving a person to do a job it was done now by drone with cheap cost and having assurity of the work. If a farmer will give 30 thousand per annum to a person to spray the field then he/she will do the same job by just buying a drone only worth 15 thousand or less.

Our work was open source and other peoples also make their own drones by following our project work.

Technical Details of Final Deliverable      Ground Station System     

At last, our quadcopter was flying autonomously by just giving the commands. It will sense the environmental behavior by using the sensors attached to it and giving back the data to the GUI. The person will be seeing all the behavior of the drone on their software and keep checking the flying status requirements of the drone. 

Sensors will measure the atmospheric pressure and acceleration speed of drone to handle properly according to the conditions. 

It will need to give only one time the coordinates of their fields and then it will be saved into the directory and next time only the person just needs to activate the last saved action and the drone start spraying the field. 

Final Deliverable of the Project HW/SW integrated systemCore Industry EducationOther IndustriesCore Technology OthersOther TechnologiesSustainable Development Goals Decent Work and Economic Growth, Responsible Consumption and ProductionRequired Resources

Item Name	Type	No. of Units	Per Unit Cost (in Rs)	Total (in Rs)
			Total in (Rs)	13900
Barometer	Equipment	2	250	500
Inertial Measurement Unit(IMU)	Miscellaneous	2	1500	3000
GPS Module	Equipment	2	800	1600
Lipo Battery	Equipment	1	4200	4200
Arduino Nano	Equipment	2	350	700
RF24L01	Equipment	2	550	1100
charger	Equipment	1	2800	2800