Solar Powered QuadCopter Drone

Abstract

Abstract: Drones are a common sight today and are being used in a wide range of applications. Fromselfies to pesticide spraying to military surveillance. Well the problem with surveillance monitoring isthat many applications require long time surveillance. Drones do provide a good view for surveillancemonitoring but have a huge drawback. This is the drone battery life. The major fear a drone pilot faces insurveillance is that the battery may run out and drone may land on a tree or building or some inaccessiblearea from where it cannot be retrieved and thus cannot be charged. This is also the case in military surveillance, the possibility of battery life running out and drone being inaccessible creates limitationsfor drone pilots during surveillance/monitoring. Well we here develop a drone with solution to these problems using solar power to constantly charge the drone to increase its flight time as well as the ability to land the drone anywhere and automatically its battery remotely to take flight later. This will lead to improved flight time as well as automatic battery charging of drones in inaccessible areas so that it cantake off from the same spot on charging. The drone is a quad rotor drone that makes use of 4 x highpowered drone motors with propellers to provide required lift to the drone. The drone body is integratedwith solar panels for high efficiency charging during idle time as well as during flight time for improved flight times. The drone is integrated with a wifi camera that can be monitored over an android smartphone using wifi connection. It makes use of a rc remote controller to receive control commands for theuser. The drone onboard rc receiver is used to receive control commands from the user and operate dronemotors to achieve desired flight.