Design and Development of a Guided Hexacopter Configuration for Carrying Healthcare to Unreached Conditions
Keywords:
Global Positioning System (GPS), Heavy-lift, Hexacopter, Multi-function drone, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)Abstract
The journey of technology is rising at high speed with extraordinary results, but somewhere, it needs to remove the lacunas to get it more enhanced. This research study explores the development of a hexacopter aerial vehicle, often referred to as a flying robot.
So there is a need for innovative development of UAVs that can solve the uncovered problems and limitations like weightlifting capacity, weight of copter, battery life, and maximum height will support the creation of technological benefits in an increasingly developing and modern era. We are using the brushless motors to neutralize the tuning force produced by the rotating propeller drone of the hexacopter. It has three clockwise motors and three anticlockwise motors which will follow Newton’s law of brushless motors which are more efficient and more reliable than brushed motors. Like drones, propellers come in two types—one for each motor’s direction. Each propeller rotates, pushing air down on the airfoil surface, creating a pressure difference that enables the drone to become airborne. This study discusses the development of the hexacopter with a lifting capacity of 5kg which will be enough to carry medical healthcare to the people who are waiting for the rescue, hence we take 6 rotors to increase the capacity of our flying robot. We also consider high-quality fiber with photo-resistive material to reduce the weight of our hexacopter. To keep continuous vigilance on the rescue activity and the drone activity, the Global Positioning System (GPS) has been installed in our drone.
At the end, result of our study was that our fibre-based drone is more efficient and able to lift the load for which it has been designed. As evidence what we get after simulating the results, safety factor has been improved for its value of 1.89ul with a 20KV rotor and battery of 12000mAh which will fly for 30 min from the time of takeoff. The landing gears are an essential part of our drone. Most drones that carry payload come with fixed landing gear helicopter mounted directly on body however the best drone will have retractable landing gears thus allowing full 360 degree view when in flight. All the results are gettable due to Autodesk Inventor software and the data has been mentioned in this research paper where the battery height and the duration have been calculated ethically.
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