Package Delivery Drone under harsh enviromental conditions

  Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly referred to as a drone, is an aircraft without an onboard human pilot. UAVs are a component of an unmanned aircraft&nbsp

Project Title

Package Delivery Drone under harsh enviromental conditions

Project Area of Specialization

Artificial Intelligence

Project Summary

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly referred to as a drone, is an aircraft without an onboard human pilot. UAVs are a component of an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) that includes a UAV, a ground-based controller, and a communication framework between the two.The flight of UAVs may work with different degrees of independence: either beneath farther control by a human administrator or independently by onboard computers.

As compared to manned aircraft, UAVs were efficiently used for carrying out missions that were dangerous for humans. Their use originated mostly in military operations but now they are rapidly expanding in commercial, agricultural, recreational and other applications such as surveillance, policing, photography, product deliveries and drone racing etc. Civilian UAVs have outnumbered the military UAVs.

Project Objectives

Now a days various electronics or mechanical systems or combination of both are used to ease human beings either during daily life or during worst conditions faced by them. The worst condition that normally faced by human beings are earthquake, explosion, flood etc. One of the electronic system is unmanned aerial vehicle with package delivery. Unmanned aerial vehicles are capable of flights without an on board operators. Such vehicles can be controlled remotely or autonomously via pre-programmed path. This project will be very helpful in worst climatic changes by delivering the packages which could contain medicines, food for human need where transport cannot reach. We will have a payload of around 500-600g which will contain the first aid box or basic food supplements which will be delivered in remote areas during harsh environmental conditions using mission planner and the flight will be autonomous where the conventional helicopters cannot reach. Thus this project would be very efficient in modern era during harsh environmental conditions.

Through this project the process of engineering from initial to the final step of construction was explored. Performance testing of UAV and delivering the package at the desired place affirmed that the particulars of the projects were met.

Project Implementation Method

We have done a lot of site surveys for our project to demonstrate we had our flights in Islamabad as well but the site was not appropriate for the autonomous flight so we have selected bahria enclave for our autonomous flight as the site was under construction so we had a lot of free ground to fly our drone autonomously and deliver the package and there was the less chances of crash in that site as there were no trees or any hurdle or any building in the ground.

Project implementation includes:

Designing of quadcopter

Stability of quadcopter

Stability via pay load

Interfacing with the software mission plannes

Site survey 

Path planning

Delivering the package

Benefits of the Project

Various environmental catastrophe happens all around the world like flood earthquake etc. In these environmental changes a human needs first aid as soon as possible so that he could survive. In these environmental changes conventional helicopters have not been proven efficient for providing the basic first aid to the needy people. Conventional helicopters cannot travel in harsh environmental conditions because it is difficult to operate such electronic and mechanical system in climatic changes. Also conventional helicopters cannot travel to remote areas which are mostly affected by the environmental changes and the human beings are stuck waiting for the basic first aid which cannot be provided sufficiently.

For this purpose our project Package delivery drone will help out the most in providing first aid in remote areas even in harsh environmental conditions. It is also cheaper than the conventional helicopters which is a big advantage.

The project has a vast application in the field of surveillance, package deliveries, drone racing and photography. It has a use in both in military as well as civilian organizations. As no controller is needed it could be best to use in all military organizations for surveillance. But most importantly delivering the first aid box in remote areas.

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

our first deliverable of having a stable flight without any payload attached to our quadcopter. As you can see we have transmitter mounted on micro controller and a GPS also for navigation. As APM 2.8 has its own internal GPS module but we have used external GPS too for perfect navigation. The motors are attached diagonally and beneath the motors we have ESC mounted. Battery is mounted beneath the controller which is connected with the power distribution board. Propellers were mounted above the motors two diagonals were in clockwise direction and the other two were in anticlockwise direction.

We have used 30A ESC because the minimum required ESC for a 1400kv is 20A which is above the basic requirement.

It is a 16 bit micro controller which gives us the expected stability of our designed quadcopter.

Firstly we had our flights manually which were expectedly very stable. The above diagram shows the calibration of propellers and motors. The left diagonal shows the counter clockwise direction while the right diagonal shows the clockwise direction of both motors and propellers.

We used external GPS mounted on the APM 2.8 because it is very efficient in real time and while having the autonomous flights it gives us the accuracy of +- 6m which is very good in real time and the package could be delivered at the desired place.

3DR power module distributes the power at every place in the system during the flight and it is the major device for any unmanned Ariel vehicle.

As the figure shows the payload is attached beneath the battery. We have used the mechanism of pan and tilt using servo motor. The package was detached manually from the fly sky I6. We have used 5 channels of the receiver 4 channels for yaw pitch roll and throttle as described earlier and the 5th channel for the servo motor through which the package was to be delivered.

Basically our sole purpose was to deliver the package of around 500gms which was achieved and the stability of quadcopter having the payload attached to it was considerable and we achieved our target.

Final Deliverable of the Project

Hardware System

Type of Industry

Transportation

Technologies

Artificial Intelligence(AI)

Sustainable Development Goals

Good Health and Well-Being for People, Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Required Resources

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