Autonomous Drone
Project Name:
PIKS Autonomous Drone Project
Outcomes:
- 2017 International Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Turkey Competition Certificate of participation
- Certificate of participation to Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Turkey Seminars
Responsibility:
- Subsystem Structure Lead
- Mechanical CAD Design
Mission:
The Piks team’s 407S Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) for the TUBITAK UAV competition 2017. The Team aims to produce an UAV that is going to complete missions provided by the competition organizers in fastest way and maximize the team score. There are two missions in the competition – image processing and airdrop. Teams must finish the first mission successfully in order to proceed to the second mission.
Mission Objectives:
- Primary mission aims to test autonomous flight and image processing capability of the UAV by recognizing colors of cells of 4x4 matrix. The cells can take 3 different colors. The UAV must specify the colors of matrix elements and save them in its memory during autonomous flight.
- Secondary mission aims to test the capability of payload release with proper sequence. in addition to the primary mission. First, the UAV must save color sequence in the matrix, then it must release the cubes every 5 second according to color sequences in the matrix.
- Besides these, The UAV must fly autonomously but it can take off manually by the pilot.
