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Títol: Study of drone synchronization

Estudiants que han llegit aquest projecte:

Director/a: ROYO CHIC, PABLO

Departament: DAC

Títol: Study of drone synchronization

Data inici oferta: 07-07-2022     Data finalització oferta: 07-03-2023


Estudis d'assignació del projecte:
    GR ENG SIST AEROESP
Tipus: Individual
 
Lloc de realització: EETAC
 
Paraules clau:
UAS, Swarm, drone
 
Descripció del contingut i pla d'activitats:
En este proyecto se pretende realizar el diseño y la implementación
de un software para realizar movimientos coordinados con varios
drones al mismo tiempo.

Las actividades a realizar son las siguiente:
1.- Estudio de una libreria para la interacción con el piloto
automático del drone.
2.- Diseño e implementación de la aplicación de movimientos
coordinados
3.- Pruebas de vuelo
 
Overview (resum en anglès):
The main objective of this project is the creation of drone coordination software, understanding coordination as the drones respect the previously designed positions and timings, as well as the design of the required systems to provide the required level of precision and accuracy to the drones positions and a LED system to illuminate the drones with lighting coordination.
The two currently available solutions require the use of modified firmware. The use of modified firmware restricts the upgradability of the firmware of the drone as only one company is responsible for developing the custom firmware and therefore deciding when to upgrade the system. Moreover, the use of custom firmware could leave the drones unusable for other applications as some functionality may be removed in order to add the functionality needed for the coordination.
Therefore the drone coordination software has to function without modifying the firmware. Drone coordination without modified firmware can be achieved with the addition of onboard computers, which are responsible for doing all the required processes and calculations in order to assure drone coordination. This led to the creation of multiple systems with each iteration improving the errors found in the previous iterations.
The final iteration lead to a working scalable system in the simulations that due to time constraints and chip shortage was unable to be tested in the real world and after a brief cost assessment resulted in not being commercially viable on a large scale due to the increased cost of each drone compared to the commercially available solutions, and the availability of the components of the drone as with current stock it would be impossible to create a large fleet of drones to perform a large scale test.

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