The Design Autonomous Modular UAV Design For Slope Survey Jeremy Beard, Matthew Dobson, Ethan Faber, Shelby Ryan The Purpose The inhabitants of Zone 5 of Guatemala City comprise a de- veloping, low-income community whose limited resources re- sult in the construction of dwellings in landslide-prone regions along steep unstable land. Partnering with the NGO Esfra, Red Rocks Community College students have developed a fully-autonomous UAV designed to analyze these regions to provide more comprehensive topographical data, where envi- ronmental disasters might then be more mitigatable. The Innovation Email contacts [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 13300 W. Sixth Ave. Lakewood, CO 80228 References Guatemala Mudslide Area Declared Uninhabitable. Retrieved from http://www.bbc.com/news/ world-latin-america-34453407 Primary references and citations listed in the project Preliminary Engineering Report. The Future Implementation of the survey UAV is estimated to begin in early 2017, as final flight performance calibration and tuning is nearly complete. End-user training and operations manual is in development to allow for seamless integration into Esfra and the community of Guatemala City. Acknowledgements The authors would like to make special thanks to NSF DUE #143-126 Engaging Low-Income/First-Generation Community College Students in STEM and Engineering for supporting this research, the RRCC IDEA Lab, and RRCC STEM Program Director Liz Cox. In October 2015, nearly 300 lives were lost after heavy rains desta- bilized the slopes around El Cambray Dos, a lower- income area similar to Zone 5 Resources are scarce, and usa- ble land more so, as such the in- habitants of developing regions of Guatemala City build homes from recycled materials, often in dangerous locations. Despite the growth of com- prehensive 3D topographic data from survey satellites, coverage of developing com- munities is still lackluster. Automation is provided by the Pix- Hawk flight controller, utilizing the open-source, waypoint-based flight software Mission Planner. Images captured during auto- mated flight will be sent to BGC Engineering, where sur- vey software will create up- dated 3D topographical data. The modular quadrotor de- sign utilizes mainstream consumer components, with the goal of an easy end- user experience. Several components re- quired redesign to fit the needs of the project, thus 3D-printing was utilized.
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The Design
Autonomous Modular UAV Design For Slope Survey
Jeremy Beard, Matthew Dobson, Ethan Faber, Shelby Ryan
The Purpose
The inhabitants of Zone 5 of Guatemala City comprise a de-
veloping, low-income community whose limited resources re-
sult in the construction of dwellings in landslide-prone regions
along steep unstable land. Partnering with the NGO Esfra,
Red Rocks Community College students have developed a
fully-autonomous UAV designed to analyze these regions to
provide more comprehensive topographical data, where envi-
ronmental disasters might then be more mitigatable.
The Innovation
Email contacts
13300 W. Sixth Ave.
Lakewood, CO 80228
References
Guatemala Mudslide Area Declared Uninhabitable. Retrieved from http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-34453407
Primary references and citations listed in the project Preliminary Engineering Report.
The Future Implementation of the survey UAV is estimated to begin in early 2017,
as final flight performance calibration and tuning is nearly complete.
End-user training and operations manual is in development to allow for
seamless integration into Esfra and the community of Guatemala City.
Acknowledgements
The authors would like to make special thanks to NSF DUE #143-126 Engaging Low-Income/First-Generation
Community College Students in STEM and Engineering for supporting this research, the RRCC IDEA Lab, and
RRCC STEM Program Director Liz Cox.
In October 2015,
nearly 300 lives
were lost after
heavy rains desta-
bilized the slopes
around El Cambray
Dos, a lower-
income area similar
to Zone 5
Resources are scarce, and usa-
ble land more so, as such the in-
habitants of developing regions
of Guatemala City build homes
from recycled materials, often in
dangerous locations.
Despite the growth of com-
prehensive 3D topographic
data from survey satellites,
coverage of developing com-
munities is still lackluster.
Automation is provided by the Pix-
Hawk flight controller, utilizing the
open-source, waypoint-based flight
software Mission Planner.
Images captured during auto-
mated flight will be sent to
BGC Engineering, where sur-
vey software will create up-
dated 3D topographical data.
The modular quadrotor de-sign utilizes mainstream consumer components, with the goal of an easy end-user experience.
Several components re-
quired redesign to fit the
needs of the project, thus
3D-printing was utilized.
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