The project aims to develop a drone that can traverse a given set of waypoints without any human intervention using onboard sensors and controllers and share its state parameter in real-time using radio telemetry.

We have used Ardupilot Mega(APM) for this purpose, an open-source standard for such projects. Also, we have simulated the project using a quadcopter, but the same can be extended to any aerial or ground vehicle easily.

Main Technologies and Software used in the Project:

Quadcopter, Battery, Motors, ESC, APM, GPS, IMU, Mission Planner

Direct Applications of the project:

1)Drone Delivery

2)Our Drone can also be used for Aerial Surveillance by attaching a Camera module.

Picture: Autonomous Quadcopter developed in this project.

Future Work:

We plan to take this further and add the following features to our autonomous drone:

1)Obstacle Avoidance

2)Camera Module, Gimbal, and Telemetry over 4G

3)Gripper for Delivery

4)Battery Management System

Project by:

Bhuvan Jhamb(20174009), Archit Chaudhary(20173053), Abhishek Gautam(20173012), Rakesh Ram(20176046)

Mentored by: Mr Nishant Kumar (Makerspace manager, Cisco thingQbator)

Acknowledgements:

We are thankful to Cisco thingQbator, MNNIT for support during the projects and Mr Nishant Kumar (Makerspace manager, Cisco thingQbator) for his guidance and mentorship throughout the project.