Design and Fabrication of High Endurance Mapping Drone

S. Sriram¹ , S. Prashanth² , S.R. Arun³ , M.G. Rajagopal⁴

Section:Research Paper, Product Type: Journal-Paper
Vol.8 , Issue.1 , pp.6-13, Jan-2022

Online published on Jan 31, 2022

Copyright © S. Sriram, S. Prashanth, S.R. Arun, M.G. Rajagopal . This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
 

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Abstract :
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are now widely used in a variety of fields, including military, agricultural, mapping, surveillance, and search & rescue operations. The high endurance and aerial mapping concepts are proposed to design and fabricate the multirotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle with increased flight time and integrated camera. The Quadcopter is also incorporated with an Arducopter flight controller and global navigation satellite system (GNSS) module for control and navigation. The camera on the optimized Quadcopter was triggered by a Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) signal sent from the mission planning software. The operator plans out the mission for data capturing, after execution the drone navigates itself to the preferred location and starts the data capturing process. The software calculates the Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates of a triggered camera during the mission and informs the operator about the drone`s current situation and progress. The data collected from the onboard camera is capable of creating a detailed map of the region that is mapped after post-processing. As a result, a huge amount of data can be gathered in a single mission by using a high endurance mapping drone.

Key-Words / Index Term :
High Endurance, Global Positioning System, Mission Planning Software, Aerial Mapping, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, Quadcopter, Camera, Trigger

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