| Group |
2022-20 |
Status |
completed |
| Title |
Damage Mitigation and Recovery System for Aerial Drones |
| Supervisor |
K. Khorasani |
| Description |
Drones are expensive pieces of equipment that can be damaged easily when in use due to
abrupt changes in environment, collision, or instrument failure. We would like to develop
a monitoring platform with the goal of minimizing the damage to the drone and aiding in
recovery in the event of a hardware malfunction or crash. The goal would be to do this by
developing: hardware compatible with common drone designs, monitoring software and
hardware to detect when a crash may be imminent, a drone hardware information monitor
(battery, rotor jams, altitude, etc.), a system to deploy a parachute, airbags or another
device to minimize impact damage, a method of tracking the drone location in real time
using GPS, and sending that to a companion app that displays the monitoring
information. The monitoring app will also allow the user to adjust certain safety
thresholds.
Possible additional drone dependent features:
Collision avoidance in addition to detection & mitigation, route planning (path and
altitude) using GPS |
| Student Requirement |
CAD software skills, PCB design, soldering, microcontroller programming, sensor
integration |
| Tools |
Aerial drone, Micro-controller, Soldering station, CAD Software, sensors (GPS,
accelerometer, gyroscope, proximity sensors) |
| Number of Students |
6 |
| Students |
I. Stellema, J. Dos Santos, K. Mama, J. Y. Kim, T. Saintbury, R. Zoghaib |
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