Design of Dual Copter for Surveillance Applications

Abstract

In this paper, an innovative design model of autonomous aerial vehicle is designed and fabricated with dual rotor setup. Nowadays, innovative unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are widely required for surveillance, monitoring, data collection, reconnaissance and generally in places where humans face hazardous. In this model and design of UAVs, aero dynamic principles are adopted through reasonable design considerations and assumptions. Most of the researchers and academicians are currently pursuing research on AVs with various structures, wing designs, fabrication methods, controllers and materials to increase the efficeincy as well as for various applications. In this proposed work, an effort is made to design and fabricate the dual copter with wide moving ranges for surveillance applications in military intelligence system. This proposed design will be suited for all environmental conditions to collect the data as well as monitoring the system. Dual copter chassis are fabricated using 3D printer after the validation and analysis the proposed design using Solidworks CAD tool. The chassis are fabricated with the provision of space where the required sensors, actuators and controllers can be assembled. Lithium polymer batteries are employed to achieve the better performance for copter. The fabricated setup is integrated with radio frequency controller to achieve the flight control through RF transmitter. Hence the performance of the fabricated device is validated and analyzed through various performance measures of dual copter.