There is a wider goal towards which the following goals lead to.
Building smart drone from scratch to do the following. It has the following phases
- Phase 1 : Implementing software that is required to complete the task on a simulator
- Phase 2 : Building drone from scratch and integrating Phase 1 into it.
- Phase 3 : Implement multiple drones to complete tasks of Phase 1.
- Delivery of of real-time data utilising existing networks.
- Display of of real-time data.
- Real-time monitoring and tracking of other drones.
- TELEMETRY: Real-time Display of height AGL to an audience.
- TELEMETRY: Real-time Display of engine management to an audience.
- TELEMETRY: Real-time Display of battry status, empty battery to an audience.
- AGRICULTURE: Drone data to determine crop health to locate invasive pest species. and overall crop plant density.
- AGRICULTURE: Drone data to determine crop health using overall crop plant density.
- MINING: Drone data recognizes worksite equipment.
- AVIATION: Drone data to navigate without GPS.
- VEHICLES: Drone data to identify vehicles.
- SAFETY: Drone safely utilising CASA airport/aerodrome data to comply with regulated exclusion zones.
- SAFETY: Drone collision avoidance.
- SAFETY: Drone black box flight recorder.
- SAFETY: Drone emergency landing technologies.
- Drone payload capacity by carrying loads (Aim: Over 50+kg)
- Drone battery technologies.
- Drone battery exchange.
- Flight Controller - Pixhawk 4
- Transmiter - Taranis X9D plus
- QQGroundControl - QGroundControl
QGroundControl is an app to configure and fly a PX4 based autopilot. It is cross platform and supports all major operating systems:
Mobile: Android and iOS (currently focused on tablet)
Desktop: Windows, Linux, Mac OS