Package Delivery UAV

Pakistan being a densely populated country has numerous problems in the field of supply chain systems.    The main problems are listed below:  The problem of coping with increased demand during peak hours.  The problem of no

Project Title

Package Delivery UAV

Project Area of Specialization

Shared Economy

Project Summary

Pakistan being a densely populated country has numerous problems in the field of supply chain systems. 

The main problems are listed below: 

• The problem of coping with increased demand during peak hours. 
• The problem of not being able to deliver because the customer is not home. 
• The problem of quality of item not up to mark (close to 30% of the items delivered are returned by the customers). 

Automation of such existing supply chain systems would also do away with following issues: 

• Manual labor. 
• Time. 
• Unreliability.
• Inconvenience.

With continued advancements in the internet era, let it be the case of shopping, ordering food, buying gifts, grocery runs, shipping official or personal packages online; the consumer base is increasingly relying on fast and reliable door step delivery. 

The market for delivering merchandise is massive. Shipping, Logistics, Online shopping businesses are investing heavily in the entire supply chain up to the extent of personalized delivery at your doorstep making the process fast and efficient. 

On the other hand, there are remarkable technological breakthroughs in fabricating drones to cope up with carrying payloads discounting self-system loads. Drones could allow accelerated delivery times, improved accuracy and reduce human cost associated with delivery.

Project Objectives

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, have the potential to significantly reduce the cost and time required to deliver packages. In general, drones are less expensive to maintain than traditional delivery vehicles such as trucks, and can lower labor costs by performing tasks autonomously. Drone Delivery is the new evolution in supply chain systems already implemented around the world. Companies like Amazon and Google have been successful in creating a revolution with their drone delivery programs. Nowadays the average consumer expectations have changed as well, instead of waiting for the delivery of their online purchases to arrive at their doorsteps in some time(days/hours); they expect their delivery’s to be made within an allocated amount of time(minutes). Introducing drones will make the delivery operations: Fast, Fluid, and Flexible. You should add a fourth F to that, too, as absolutely Free! not just for the customers, as well as for the companies that require deliveries to be made.

In an ideal situation a UAV will land in a cleared area, supervised or operated by a human operator. However, sometimes a UAV has to land in unplanned zones without an operator. Reasons for this could by malfunctioning hardware (wireless data link between the UAV and operator, problems with the engines), weather conditions etc. Many UAVs have a fallback mode that allows them to land in a controlled way if no operator or preprogrammed flight plan is available. A typical scenario for a small helicopter would be to hover for several minutes at a fixed position and then slowly descend until the ground is reached. The hovering and slow descend will give people nearby the time to make clear the area below the UAV.

Project Implementation Method

 

The drone will receive coordinates from the google map through GPS and will proceed only when the right coordinates are received. 

The drone will proceed after getting coordinates and will land to the location which is put in by the user through google map.

After landing on the provided/desired coordinates the gripping/clutching mechanism will grip the package from the initial position.

The drone will then receive coordinates from the google map again for the destination position. If it knows the correct destination coordinates it will proceed if not, it will not. 

After knowing the destination location the flight will start and it will go on a specific height provided by the user and will start to follow the coordinates.

During it’s flight, if there is an instance that it gets a hinderance in flight in the face of an obstacle, there is a detection mechanism that allows the drone to get information that there is an obstacle coming it’s way.

If it detects the obstacle correctly, the collision avoidance mechanism will allow the drone to avoid the obstacle coming under it’s way.

If the obstacle is correctly avoided, the drone will carry on its flight to the destination.

The drone will reach at the desired destined position if it has properly avoided collision and there is no problem in the carriage of payload.

If the drone have a successful completion of flight and have reached the desired destination, it will then release the package after reading the coordinates provided.

The drone will then decide if the package have safely delivered to the provided coordinates or not. If yes, it will proceed forward.

If the package is properly delivered, it will get back to the initial coordinates that were fed in before the start of flight.

If the drone lands back on the initial coordinates provided without any problems in carriage of payload or during the flight, this marks the successful completion of the trip and it will return to the user informing about the successful trip.

Benefits of the Project

It will reduce human efforts by delivering different packages to home.

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

1. Product Deliverables and specifications: 

1. Power Requirements:

1. Safety Requirements:

1. Applicable Standards:

• Integrate the sensors with the flight controller.
• Integrate the delivery system with Raspberry Pi.
• Build UAV and assimilate the flight controller with it.
• Obstacles avoiding sensor interfacing.
• First Flight test with payload attached (Attachment with garden hose).
• Extensive flight tests with payload attached (Attachment with garden hose).
• Flight test with payload attached and deliver the package to destination.

Raspberry Pi 3B

The operating voltage of Raspberry Pi 3B is 3.3V. The Input voltage will be between 7V to 20V.

     GPS and GSM Module

The operating voltage of this module is between 3.7V to 4.2V. The Raspberry Pi via control signals will control it.

      MPU9250 BM280 Module

        The operating voltage of this module is 3 to 5 V.

      Arduino mega 2560 R3

     It has 54 digital input/output pins (of which 14 can be used as PWM outputs), 16 analog inputs, 4 UARTs (hardware serial ports), a 16 MHz crystal oscillator.

Common power module

Maximum input voltage of 18V (4S lipo).Maximum of 90 Amps (but only capable of measuring up to 60 Amps).Provides 5.37V and 2.25Amp power supply to the flight controller.

The safety requirements of the product are:

• Do not expose the main controller unit to heat. The Raspberry Pi is designed for normal operation at normal ambient temperatures.
• Always operate the drone in line-of-sight(visile) and make sure to check for the trip’s area of operation.
• Raspberry Pi should not be exposed to water or moisture and should be kept away from direct sunlight.
• Sensors are not affected by weather and temperature in normal range.

THE STANDARDS USED WILL CONSTITUTE  OF  STANDARDS UNDER ISO  FOR UNMANNED VEHICLES

ISO/TC 20/SC 16

Final Deliverable of the Project

HW/SW integrated system

Core Industry

Transportation

Other Industries

Transportation

Core Technology

Shared Economy

Other Technologies

Artificial Intelligence(AI)

Sustainable Development Goals

Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Required Resources

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