Autonomous Drone for Efficacious Blood Conveyance

Abstract

This proposed research work focuses on the implementation of an autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to deliver blood and medical supplies to any hospital or any location in a particular region. According to the food and drug administration, blood has a limited storage period of 42 days, that is if refrigerated under proper conditions. Not all hospitals are capable of storing blood under proper conditions. So, with the help of this project, blood can be transported from a single certain location which acts as a base for a region covering few hospitals through an UAV with minimal requirements and extremely fast. So blood can be stored at a particular place under proper refrigerating conditions, the hospitals nearby to the base could intimate the base the number of blood units required at that particular time, the UAV within 15–20 minutes would deliver the blood package at the site closer to the hospital making it an efficient way of transporting blood. The UAV would be completely automated with a built in GPS integrated with the battery which locks the location of the drop site, where it would have to drop the package, once it is launched from the base. The UAV has a modular design which helps to make the process of launching the UAV into the air much quicker the any UAV in the world. After the drop the UAV would return to the base, thus making it reusable for further flights as well. This method helps in reducing the blood being wasted unnecessarily and can guarantee a 0% blood wastage throughout the region. Hospitals can also reduce unnecessary fatalities due to lack of blood and medical supplies with the help of this project. Moreover in extreme situations like a natural calamity, medical and food supplies can be transported to the people trapped in these regions.