A Survey: Drone Opportunities and Challenges

  • Ketan Chaudhari, Jyotsna Dhope , Dheeraj Bhat, Sonal Jagtap

Abstract

A drone is an unmanned aerial vehicle which is usually controlled from a dedicated remote unit and can manage all things in air due to an intelligent software program. Drone can be categorized depending on the number of propellers such as tricopter, quadcopter, hexacopter, octocopter. Drones can also be differentiated according to its size, weight, flight altitude, purpose of use and restrictions. Drones are mainly made up of frame, brushless motors, propellers, flight controller, battery, electronic speed controller, transmitter and receiver. It is controlled using a transmitter and receiver setup. While building a drone some of the common problems faced are stability, frame strength, programming of the flight controller, sensor limitations, battery life etc. Drones can be incorporated with radio frequency technology to avoid range limitations. For stability of the drone optimal flight controller settings are required which can be achieved by trial and error process. By using today’s advanced drone technology it has opportunities in various sectors such as photography, surveillance, precision agriculture, shipping and delivery, geographic mapping.

Published
2020-07-01