JAYA ENGINEERING COLLEGE

DEPARTMENT OF AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING

BATCH MEMBERS
110816101004 JANANI
110816101011 MANIKANDAN
110816101017 MURUGESAN KOKILAVANI

GUIDENAME : MR. BENNY THOMSON

 INTRODUCTION
• Drones are more formally known as unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs) or unmanned aircraft systems .
Essentially, a drone is a flying robot that can be
remotely controlled or fly autonomously through
software-controlled flight plans in their embedded
systems, working in conjunction with onboard sensors
and GPS.
• Quadcopter multirotor helicopter rotorcraft
lifted and propelled by four propellers.

• Spinning of propeller blades pushes air down . Every action

force opposite equal force .
Advantages of using Autonomous drone:
• It is able to fly into zones where it would be dangerous for a pilot

• It is capable of flying for long periods of time, while doing repetitive

tasks, for up to 30 hours.

• No need for a qualified pilot to fly it.

• In the long run, will be cheaper than paying for personnel to do the
task, with one Japanese radio-controlled helicopter can do the work of
15 labours.

• It has benefits in terms of safety, reliability, affordability and

efficiency.
Application of autonomous drones
Configuration of a typical quadrotor uav
 LITERATURE REVIEW
Trajectory generation and control for precise aggressive
maneuvers with quadrotors : Daniel Mellinger, Nathan
Michael, and Vijay Kumar

• Design of dynamically feasible trajectory and controllers.

• Control attitude control , hover control , 3D path following .

• Trajectory generation via sequential composition.

• Sequence for aggressive trajectories trajectory description ,
initial parameter selection , parameter adaptation.

• Sequence of robust perching.

• Conclusion : these characteristics

make the quadrotor an ideal
platform for operations such as
exploration, surveillance, search
and rescue or even artistic
performances.
PIXHAWK: A micro aerial vehicle design for autonomous
flight using onboard computer vision : L. Meier, P. Tanskanen,
F. Fraundorfer, and M. Pollefeys

• Hardware IMU camera synchronization.

• Visual pose estimation synchronized IMU measurements

improved efficiency and robustness.

• Stereo computer vision system produces death map of

obstacles.
• System design powerful onboard computers high
level tasks visual localization.

• Visual position estimation ARTK + localization

vision IMU fusion outlier removal .

• Stereo obstacle detection point clouds from stereo

depth information about indoor and outdoor environment
detect obstacles in the vicinity of MAV.

• Catastrophic event open loop safety manuever.

• Fusing vision and IMU information increase the accuracy of
camera pose estimation.

• Conclusion : using an already available flight controller can increase

the process of building the quadrotor. Features single board computer
with multi core processor.
Framework for Autonomous On-board Navigation with
the AR.Drone:Jacobo Jimenez Lugo and Andreas Zell ´

• Framework autonomous navigation minimal

hardware and software.

• A.R.Drone platform hardware

software
navigation algorithm
control
System architecture
• Autonomous figure flying position estimation
path planning and control

• Conclusion: framework that allows the lowcost quadrotor AR.Drone

to equip additional processing power to perform autonomous flights,
position estimation and person following.
A Camera-Based Target Detection and Positioning UAV
System for Search and Rescue (SAR) Purposes : Jingxuan
Sun, Boyang Li, Yifan Jiang, and Chih-yung Wen

• In large regions ,limited rescue distribution uav are promising

platform for aerial imaging.

• All-in-one camera-based target detection and positioning system is

developed fully autonomous fixed-wing UAV.
• Airframe of the uav system
Fixed-wing aircraft high speed cruising ability
long range and
flexibility in complex climatic conditions.

• Propulsion system
Battery 10,000 mAh Lipo 4-cell 20 C
Maximum cruse time 40 min at an airspeed of 18 m/s.

• Navigation system
Pixhawk flight controller free ArduPilot Plane firmware with GPS
Fully autonomous