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Títol: Study and design of an agriculture-oriented UAV platform

Director/a: CASAS PIEDRAFITA, OSCAR

Departament: EEL

Títol: Study and design of an agriculture-oriented UAV platform

Data inici oferta: 25-02-2015     Data finalització oferta: 25-10-2015


Estudis d'assignació del projecte:
    Tipus: Individual
     
    Lloc de realització: Fora UPC    
     
            Supervisor/a extern: David Riera Mallol
            Institució/Empresa: Hemav
            Titulació del Director/a: Enginyer Aeronàutic
     
    Paraules clau:
    Quadrotors, Agricultura
     
    Descripció del contingut i pla d'activitats:
    Hemav is a technological based startup that offers aerial
    services with UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle). One of them is
    precision agriculture, where remote-sensing techniques
    combined with the use of several kinds of cameras
    (multispectral, IR, thermal…) generate maps containing
    information such as vigor, soil and irrigation determination.
    In order to offer the best quality of service to their
    clients, they want to enhance their current prototype by
    increasing its efficiency and autonomy as well as collecting
    more telemetry data for monitoring purpose in order to make it
    safer. Additionally they would also like to produce an
    agriculture optimized platform.
    In that context, the scope of this project would be to improve
    the actual prototype in terms of efficiency, autonomy and
    telemetry in order to produce a new UAV family optimized for
    agriculture purpose.
    Objectives:
    - State of requirements for agriculture remote-sensing
    applications.
    - Analysis of the current platform to identify the required
    changes to be made.
    - Add remote monitoring of several UAV’s parameters to improve
    safety.
    - Design an easy-to-produce and low cost maintenance model.
    - Material selection for the production process.
    Methodology:
    This Master Thesis will start with a preliminary theoretical
    work containing the analysis of the current model in order to
    identify the required changes needed to fulfill expected
    requirements as well as the study and design (theoretical) of
    the different solutions.
    The second phase of the project will contain more practical
    work and will include the implementation and validation of the
    chosen solutions.
    The project will be in the context of an internship into the
    Hemav Company.
    The student will be able to demonstrate his skills on:
    research, electricity and mechanics among other areas related
    with aeronautics. In the scope of this project, the student
    will be able to apply his aerospace background as well as his
    electronics, structure and materials knowledge.
     
    Overview (resum en anglès):

    Hemav is a technology-based start-up that offers aerial services with UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle). One of them is precision agriculture, where remote-sensing techniques combined with the use of several kinds of cameras (multispectral, IR, thermal…) generate maps containing information such as vigor, soil and irrigation determination.
    In order to offer the best quality of service to their clients, they want to enhance their current prototype by increasing its efficiency and autonomy as well as collecting more telemetry data for monitoring purpose in order to make it safer. Additionally they would also like to produce an agriculture optimized platform.
    In that context, the scope of this project would be to improve the actual prototype in terms of efficiency, autonomy and telemetry in order to produce a new UAV family optimized for agriculture purpose.

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