Short Range Remote Drone Deployment
Project number:
21036
Sponsor:
General Dynamics
Academic year:
2020-2021
Project Goal: Conduct video surveillance of an area of interest from two miles away by using a relay to remotely control a drone.
Police departments have a critical need to safely conduct remote aerial drone reconnaissance of an area of interest.
The team formed a communication chain from the user to the drone by integrating various commercial products. A Raspberry Pi 4 was mounted to a DJI drone using a 3D-printed adapter plate. A remote computer accesses the Raspberry Pi 4, which is connected to the internet by a commercial 4G module. The user taps into the DJI GO 4 Wi-Fi program to control the drone.
Two sets of data are captured and recorded in the event of a drone failure. A high-resolution data set is recorded on the drone's SD card, while a lower resolution version is recorded on the host computer.
Police departments have a critical need to safely conduct remote aerial drone reconnaissance of an area of interest.
The team formed a communication chain from the user to the drone by integrating various commercial products. A Raspberry Pi 4 was mounted to a DJI drone using a 3D-printed adapter plate. A remote computer accesses the Raspberry Pi 4, which is connected to the internet by a commercial 4G module. The user taps into the DJI GO 4 Wi-Fi program to control the drone.
Two sets of data are captured and recorded in the event of a drone failure. A high-resolution data set is recorded on the drone's SD card, while a lower resolution version is recorded on the host computer.
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