Design of Fully Automatic Drone Parachute System with Temperature Compensation Mechanism for Civilian and Military Applications
Application of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (a.k.a. drones) is becoming more popular and their safety is becoming a serious concern. Due to high cost of top-end drones and requirements for secure landing, development of reliable drone recovery systems is a hot topic now. In this paper, we describe the d...
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| author | Basem AL-Madani Marius Svirskis Gintautas Narvydas Rytis Maskeliūnas Robertas Damaševičius |
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| description | Application of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (a.k.a. drones) is becoming more popular and their safety is becoming a serious concern. Due to high cost of top-end drones and requirements for secure landing, development of reliable drone recovery systems is a hot topic now. In this paper, we describe the development of a parachute system with fall detection based on accelerometer-gyroscope MPU – 6050 and fall detection algorithm based on the Kalman filter to reduce acceleration errors while drone is flying. We developed the compensation algorithm for temperature-related accelerometer errors. The parachute system tests were performed from a small height on a soft surface. Later, the system was tested under real-world conditions. The system functioned effectively, resulting in parachute activation times of less than 0.5s. We also discuss the civilian and military applications of the developed recovery system in harsh (high temperature) environment. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-6b46ccce23cf4688b5d9cf697b945a832025-02-03T01:10:18ZengWileyJournal of Advanced Transportation0197-67292042-31952018-01-01201810.1155/2018/29645832964583Design of Fully Automatic Drone Parachute System with Temperature Compensation Mechanism for Civilian and Military ApplicationsBasem AL-Madani0Marius Svirskis1Gintautas Narvydas2Rytis Maskeliūnas3Robertas Damaševičius4Computer Engineering Department, College of Computer Science and Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, P.O. Box 1195, Dhahran 31261, Saudi ArabiaDepartment of Automation, Kaunas University of Technology, Studentų 48, 111, 51367 Kaunas, LithuaniaDepartment of Automation, Kaunas University of Technology, Studentų 48, 111, 51367 Kaunas, LithuaniaDepartment of Multimedia Engineering, Kaunas University of Technology, Barsausko 59, A338, Kaunas, LithuaniaDepartment of Multimedia Engineering, Kaunas University of Technology, Barsausko 59, A338, Kaunas, LithuaniaApplication of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (a.k.a. drones) is becoming more popular and their safety is becoming a serious concern. Due to high cost of top-end drones and requirements for secure landing, development of reliable drone recovery systems is a hot topic now. In this paper, we describe the development of a parachute system with fall detection based on accelerometer-gyroscope MPU – 6050 and fall detection algorithm based on the Kalman filter to reduce acceleration errors while drone is flying. We developed the compensation algorithm for temperature-related accelerometer errors. The parachute system tests were performed from a small height on a soft surface. Later, the system was tested under real-world conditions. The system functioned effectively, resulting in parachute activation times of less than 0.5s. We also discuss the civilian and military applications of the developed recovery system in harsh (high temperature) environment.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/2964583 |
| spellingShingle | Basem AL-Madani Marius Svirskis Gintautas Narvydas Rytis Maskeliūnas Robertas Damaševičius Design of Fully Automatic Drone Parachute System with Temperature Compensation Mechanism for Civilian and Military Applications Journal of Advanced Transportation |
| title | Design of Fully Automatic Drone Parachute System with Temperature Compensation Mechanism for Civilian and Military Applications |
| title_full | Design of Fully Automatic Drone Parachute System with Temperature Compensation Mechanism for Civilian and Military Applications |
| title_fullStr | Design of Fully Automatic Drone Parachute System with Temperature Compensation Mechanism for Civilian and Military Applications |
| title_full_unstemmed | Design of Fully Automatic Drone Parachute System with Temperature Compensation Mechanism for Civilian and Military Applications |
| title_short | Design of Fully Automatic Drone Parachute System with Temperature Compensation Mechanism for Civilian and Military Applications |
| title_sort | design of fully automatic drone parachute system with temperature compensation mechanism for civilian and military applications |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/2964583 |
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