Drone delivery refers to use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to transport packages from one place to another and is further enhanced to autonomously navigate to specific destinations. Timely delivery of medicinal packages like vaccines, blood bags or even organ transplants is crucial. However, the current system is remote-controlled that uses parachutes to deliver packages or just drops them without checking if the intended recipient has received it. In order to overcome them, this project proposes a prototype on building an autonomous self-driving drone system equipped with GPS tracking and collision avoidance through ultrasonic sensors to achieve safe flight and deliver the package to desired destination while tracking over the android interface built using flutter. The main objective is to design and develop battery operated autonomous drone, achieve object avoidance through ultrasonic sensors, practice safe package landing and release mechanism, building a user-friendly flutter application to track the system with integrated GPS tracking and radio telemetry modules to support LOS (line of sight) and BLOS (beyond line of sight) communication up to $5 \mathbf{k m}$ and a battery optimization setup to return to control unit when it falls below 30 percent. This approach ensures that the delivery is attempted autonomously which only requires manual input of source and destination address that generates a route for the system to follow and accordingly tracked over the app. On arrival a user prompt method is used to confirm presence and deliver the package through hook mechanism. Hence, automating logistics provides efficient deliveries of emergency supplies.
AGILE-DRONE: Autonomous GPS-Enabled Delivery with Integrated Android Interface and Radio Telemetry
2024-08-22
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