Development of a hexacopter as a reforestation aid through automated seed bombs distribution

• Main Authors: Comendador, Glenn Rommel P., De Jesus, Adiel Sam T., Lerit, Jose Mari Luis L.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2017
• Subjects: Drone aircraft; Drone aircraft > Control systems
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/6728
• Institution: De La Salle University

In the current state of innovation the state of the environment is compromised to the point of deforestation. Reforestation efforts are continuously being done but the difficulty of accessing the forests remains to be a problem. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are often used for surveillance and recently, used to carry payloads for more flexible functions. In planting, the development of seed bombs or seeds enclosed in a certain mud formation is discovered so it can strategically grow in certain terrains. Given the problems and the existing solutions, this paper aims to design a hexacopter that can distribute seed bombs to deforested area. Hexacopters are cited as an efficient UAV that can be both battery and payload efficient. Algorithms are developed to address auto-leveling controls before seed distributions which will also run on its own path algorithm. The user can control the robot through a programmed ground control center (GCC) through ZigBee communication where the live feed view from the robots moving first person view (FPV) camera is shown. The specific study is aimed to be tested on a simulated test environment that would contain instances in a deforested setup.