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Títol: Design of the control system for a drone winch and software development

Estudiants que han llegit aquest projecte:

Director/a: VIDAL FERRÉ, RAFAEL

Departament: ENTEL

Títol: Design of the control system for a drone winch and software development

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: Miguel Angel Rodriguez
        Institució/Empresa: SITEP
        Titulació del Director/a: Industrial Engineer
 
Paraules clau:
drone, UAV, RPAS, UAS, GCS, ground control station, winch, payload, communication, software, system integration
 
Descripció del contingut i pla d'activitats:
The project will be focused on the design of the control and
monitoring system for a drone winch. This includes being able to
control the system from the GCS and develop a software application
to monitor the status of the payload and the different winch
parameters (winch speed, payload altitude, weight of the payload,
is the payload attached to the system? ').

The student will be working full time (9 AM to 6 PM) mostly
dedicated at writing the master thesis.
 
Overview (resum en anglès):
The continuous increase use of drones over the last years is leading to new advancements in the technology, resulting in brand new applications on the market. Cargo delivery is a well-known application and companies have been investing on it for quite a while already, developing UAS designed exclusively for cargo delivery applications.
This master thesis contributes in that field, developing the software part of a winch system for UAS, being capable of introducing an alternative delivery method rather than landing the drone with the package attached to itself.
The work differentiates two main segments: on one hand the development of a software application that serves as a GCS exclusively for the winch. And on the other hand, the development of microcontroller scripts to attain all the required functionalities of the system including the basic winch functions.
The report contains details about the development process of the winch concept, the two different stages used to develop the winch and a description of the GCS, enumerating the current functionalities.
The final result obtained fulfils the software functionalities requirements and provides a configurable system that is able to operate with up to 20 kg payloads despite not using the definitive components of the final product. All the information related to the operation can be consulted during and after the operation, thanks to the application and the saved logs from both the GCS and the winch microcontroller.

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