Desenvolvimento de um drone de baixo custo

Abstract

The goal of this work consists in the development of a Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), reffered as drone in text. From the physical point of view (hardware) of the drone, one of the main focuses of this work is obtaining a low-cost drone. In order to do so, components and materials of rapid acquisition and prototyping were used. For example, development boards were used, as well as modelling and printing of physical components throught a 3D printer. Apart from the development of the physical part of the drone, this work also presents an imple- mentation of a programming interface to communicate with the board used for navigation. This provides basic mechanisms for autonomous navigation, which are needed to allow for the inte- gration of other applications and technologies to the drone, e.g., image processing and natural language proccessing libraries.