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CONEM 2018
X Congresso Nacional de Engenharia Mecânica
DEVELOPMENT OF AN AUTONOMOUS UAV
Submission Author:
Lucas Hissa , RJ
Co-Authors:
Lucas Hissa, João Elias Martins Mothé, Rogerio De Carvalho
Presenter: João Elias Martins Mothé
doi://10.26678/ABCM.CONEM2018.CON18-1600
Abstract
The development of vehicles capable of flying autonomously is of great interest in respect to research and development. This is justified by the importance of avoiding the exposure of people to hazardous work or even to reduce the cost of certain operations. Around the world, Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles (UAVs) are already employed by several fire departments such as that of the city of Bedford, USA, where they are used to conduct search and rescue operations, and also for rapid localization of fires. (DRONE, 2015). This research project addresses some questions on the use of autonomous UAVs to access hard access areas, in a safe way. This type of operation is possible by developing an navigation system based on a Real Time Operating System, which collects the current location through a GPS and calculates the route to the previously defined destination. The system acts by constantly creating intermediary setpoints to be followed by the UAV, based on the obstacles detected and coordinates from both the destination and the current UAV location, once it reaches the final point, the payload is commanded to proceed with its processes. At the end of the processing tasks, the UAV returns to initial point using the same setpoints based system.
Keywords
RTOS, Autonomous UAVs, Microcontrollers, SetPoints, GPS
