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Drone Mechanical System

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Drone Mechanical System Mechanical Parts of a Drone System Figure 1-6. Mechanical parts of a drone The  system is basically the enclosures, form factor, or simple ID (industrial design) of the drone. The ID determines the exterior and appearance of the drone. The ID of the drone will usually have numerous mechanical parts in a complicated assembly with electrical parts interconnected through mechanical or thermal interconnects. The most popular drone, seen in Figure 1-1, has a quadcopter built from an X-frame or H-frame with four servo motor/propeller units on each end with numerous other mechanical parts along with the PCBA enclosed in plastic. A drone with frame as a base includes propellers, motors, landing gear, body (usually PCBA, flight controllers, and motor drivers), and a battery. Note : ----------------------------------------------------------- Heavier drones are powered using alternate fuels other than batteries, such as solar power or gasoline. Drones operating with th...
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Drone Software System

Drone Software System Software There are three or maybe four categories of software that we’d use on the drone system: 1. Firmware components: Many of the HW components (devices) that we put on a system today are not just passive hardware components; they have associated firmware that can help offload certain activities without requiring the CPU’s attention. 2. OS and drivers: Typically, in an OS-based environment, to maintain the coherency of device usage and establish a level of security, the SW is divided into system and application domains. Different OSes use different terminologies for the same: system and application domains. This separation typically uses the protection and separation mechanism provided by hardware. And different SOC architectures implement and/or. provide different ways for protection and separation. Broadly speaking, there are two parts to the system part of the software: a) . The controllers’ and devices’ drivers, which provide access to the hardware...
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Parts of a Drone Sub System

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Parts of a Drone Sub System Drone  Sub  System Subsystems By : Jakkir Hussain, Subsystems or electrical subsystems are technologies required in a system to fulfill the intended usage of the system. Broadly speaking, subsystems fall into any one of the following computer architecture parts: input, output, storage, and communication devices. Figure 1-4. Parts of a drone Input A touch panel, keyboard, mouse, microphone, camera, sensors, and remote control are some examples of input devices of a system. Output Displays, speakers, motors, fans, and LEDs are some examples of output  devices of a system. Storage Memory, flash, hard disk drive, optical drive, secure digital, and solid state drive are some examples of the storage devices of a system.  Communication Devices Wired LAN (local area network), wireless LAN, mobile networks (3G, 4G, and LTE), GPS (Global Positioning System), and USB are some examples of the communication devices of a systems. All of the subsyst...
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Parts of a Drone System

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Parts of a Drone System Parts of a Drone System By : Jakkir Hussain, Drone System  Hardware From an engineer’s view, the key parts of a drone system are the hardware, software, and mechanical elements; and a perfect balance between the three provides a flawless system design. Hardware Hardware is the electrical part of the drone system, which is eventually a PCBA (printed circuit board assembly). Hardware is a multilayer PCB that accommodates the SOC (system on a chip) and different components of the subsystems interconnected through copper traces (part of the PCB) or physical wires. Figure 1-2 shows the PCBA assembled with SOC and subsystems on the top side (primary side). Figure 1-2. PCBA mounted with SOC and subsystems The SOC The SOC is a miniature computer on a chip of a present generation systems, especially a drone system. It’s a semiconductor device and an integrated circuit that usually integrates digital, analog, mixed signal, and radio frequency devices on a single chip....
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What Is a Drone?

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  What Is a Drone? What Is a Drone? By : Jakkir Hussain, An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft without a human pilot onboard. UAVs are a component of an unmanned aircraft system, which includes a UAV, a ground-based controller, and a system of communications between the two. The flight of UAVs may operate with various degrees of autonomy, either under remote control by a human operator or autonomously by onboard computers. Drones are classified into different categories based on the applications. Applications are broad, and from the design perspective, generally fall under three major groups: military, industrial (enterprise), and commercial. Military Drones in military applications are used for anti-aircraft target practice, intelligence gathering and, more controversially, as weapons platforms. Industrial The integration of drones and IoT (Internet of Things) technology has created numerous industrial and enterprise use cases: drones working ...
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