The goal of this project is to create an easy-to-expand Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) platform capable of conducting coordinated wide-area reconnaissance. Our system uses a combination of off-the-shelf components and open-source software to enable custom mission creation. Each drone packages and sends image, position, and orientation data over a WiFi connection to a centralized ground station computer for processing. Potential applications for this system range from search-and-rescue to surveying and inspection.

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Creator

• Keane, Christopher Mead
• Jasensky, Zachary Philip
• Lovett, Zachariah Daniel
• Geary, Conor William

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-043015-134025

Advisor

• Wyglinski, Alexander
• Padir, Taskin

Year

• 2015

Date created

• 2015-04-30

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Robotics Engineering
• Interdisciplinary

Rights statement

• In Copyright