Dear friends,
Today we’ll present you our project.
As we can see in standard rescue, the first and major step is the localization’s step. And this localization could not be always easy in some cases. Indeed, a lot of hostile environments areas like flooded areas prevent a satisfactory location of victims. So, it would seem necessary to find a localization system adapted and efficient for rescuing and avoiding a possible risk for humans.
Our project was born from the idea that a UAV system is cheaper and smaller than helicopters, and so it could me deployed in a most important number. The project consists of creating a fully functional system (Ground Control Station, Quadcopter and maybe auto-charging system) for Search in hostile environment. The Ground Control Station is an equipped flight case with a computer for data logging, video and telemetry displaying and sending MAVLink commands; the UAV will be a MultiPilot32F4 and Navy 2012 system, with FrSky RC and 3DR 433MHz Telemetry and fiberglass Quadcopter, with a video camera and his gimbal. The auto-charging system is just an idea for the moment and had been inspired by induction and wireless energy transfer to avoid connectors (the drones should just land on an area to charge) but we’re thinking on the potential risk of interference on the radio link.
We’re going to do some posts in July to present you the construction of the project which have been created for French physics contest and which will be probably exposed on the National Physics salon of the contest.
Best
Stynes and Lichard Torman
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Oh, yeah, I was looking on the "What's OpenPilot ?" chapter, I didn't see :)
But in fact, the board has no real navigation capabilities, like auto landing, and the search and rescue capability is not going to be ready before a long time i think. But their GCS software is interesting on the design.
I had a look at their top page:
"surveying and inspection, search & rescue as well as academic research"
but it's a theoretical discussion, because up to now there is no board available (at least no one with navigation capabilities) ;)
I don't think so, because the openpilot project is for scientific and civil use. But the civil use, if we look, is archeology, real estate, etc. but not victims localization in hostile areas, at least that's what I understood.
Seems that the destination of your project is very similar to the aims of the OpenPilot Project.
Hello marcomasiero,
In fact, we didn't know about the Emilia Romagna's earthquake.
Our system is different in some points, because we want to make a totally (as much as possible) open source UAV, from hardware to software. Furthermore, our UAV is equipped of different utilities to be more affordable (because aermatica will not give his construction plans or sell for free his drones for all the world - I think -) to be possible to little cities to have a security solution. it's like professional, and cost, security equipment for big cities and little price security equipment, for rural towns.
But it's just a physics contest, and not a real distributed system ...
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Stynes and Lichard Torman
hello Stynes / Lichard, such systems are already operated in Italy in Emilia Romagna due to recent earthquake.