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Projecte llegit

Títol: Flight planning and monitoring application for Drones for Desert Locust project.

Estudiants que han llegit aquest projecte:

Director/a: MESEGUER PALLARÈS, ROC

Departament: DAC

Títol: Flight planning and monitoring application for Drones for Desert Locust project.

Data inici oferta: 12-02-2022     Data finalització oferta: 13-02-2022


Estudis d'assignació del projecte:
    MU DRONS
Tipus: Individual
 
Lloc de realització: Fora UPC    
 
        Supervisor/a extern: Sergi Tres
        Institució/Empresa: HEMAV foundation
        Titulació del Director/a: Aeronavigation Engineer
 
Paraules clau:
UAS, desert locust, mobile application, JavaScript, React, React Native, Expo
 
Descripció del contingut i pla d'activitats:
The student will do the market study to select the most
appropriate drone solution aligned with the project requirements.
Once selected, the student will do the best integration of all the
systems needed to use this drone for date palm fumigation.
 
Overview (resum en anglès):
This thesis arises from the need to update the currently used application to plan and monitor the flights carried out with drones in the Drones for Desert Locust project (dLocust) since the technology and style utilized are obsolete. The project¿s objective is to develop a mobile application using the most up-to-date technology possible to be used exclusively in this project, which is compatible with the Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) operated, the Hemav Plane 2 (HP2).

Drones for Desert Locust is a Hemav Foundation (HF) project. This private non-profit organization extends the company¿s activity within the social sphere, with the primary objective of demonstrating and promoting the commitment of UAS technology to human beings and society. The project objective is to design, develop and implement UAS and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to strengthen the current desert locust early warning system and preventive control strategy by focusing firstly on detecting risk areas and inspecting preswarm locust occurrences.

React, React Native (RN), and Expo are leading technologies used during the application¿s development. React is a JavaScript (JS) library that creates declarative User Interfaces (UI) using a component-based concept. On the other hand, React Native is an opensource React-based JavaScript framework designed to build apps on multiple platforms like iOS, Android, and web applications, utilizing the same code base. At the same time, Expo is a platform that operates on top of React Native to facilitate development with this technology.

Although the application cannot be tested with the HP2 in the desert in natural conditions, the results obtained with a realistic simulation avoiding the flight phase are enough to provide the application¿s functionality and validate it. Also, an Android Package (APK) has been built to execute the application in test mode without the simulation or drone to see how the app works.

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