Preliminary Design of Drone for Security

Abstract

This study provides a Mission Definition System and the automated flight procedure that it provides for discrete infrastructure inspections employing aerial platforms, particularly multi-rotor drones. Using high-level mission definition primitives and coupling them to realistic flight models to simulate the inspection in advance, the mission definition attempts to improve planning efficiency in comparison to state-of-the-art waypoint-based solutions. It also includes flying scripts and measurement plans that commercial drone can use. Mission definition, pre-flight 3D synthetic mission visualization, and flight evaluation are all made easier with its user interfaces. The results for a series of representative infrastructure inspection flights are presented, demonstrating the accuracy of the flight prediction tools in real-world operations with automated flight control.