Fire and Flood Fighter Octocopter

It's a Pixhawk & Raspberry Pi based remote controlled or autonomous 8-armed UAV which will fight as firefighter & work as flood relief distributor.

The project was featured at IEEE Maker Fair Website: https://transmitter.ieee.org/makerproject/view/cabcb

Table of Contents

• Introduction
  • Hardware
  • Project Contributors
  • Live Demo
• Fire Fighter Octocopter
  • Mission Planner for Ground Station
  • Mission Planner Overview
  • Launch on Windows
• Flood Relief Distributor Octocopter
  • Compile on Linux
  • Face Recognition During Delivery Mission

Introduction

Hardware

Project Contributors

• Arghya Chatterjee
• Rumayel Hasan Pallock
• Boshra Aziz Roshni
• Al Mamun

Live Demo

For watching the copter in action, please visit here.

Fire Fighter Octocopter

Mission Planner for Ground Station

• Website : http://ardupilot.org/planner/
• Forum : http://discuss.ardupilot.org/c/ground-control-software/mission-planner
• Download latest stable version : http://firmware.ardupilot.org/Tools/MissionPlanner/MissionPlanner-latest.msi
• Changelog : https://github.com/ArduPilot/MissionPlanner/blob/master/ChangeLog.txt
• License : https://github.com/ArduPilot/MissionPlanner/blob/master/COPYING.txt

Mission Planner Overview

Launch on Windows

• Get the lastest zipped version of Mission Planner here : https://firmware.ardupilot.org/Tools/MissionPlanner/MissionPlanner-latest.zip
• Unzip in the directory you want
• Go into the directory
• run with:

mono MissionPlanner.exe

You can debug Mission Planner on Mono with:

MONO_LOG_LEVEL=debug mono MissionPlanner.exe

Flood Relief Distributor Octocopter

Compile On Linux

Those instructions were tested on Ubuntu 16.04. Please install Mono, either :

sudo apt install mono-runtime libmono-system-windows-forms4.0-cil libmono-system-core4.0-cil libmono-winforms2.0-cil libmono-corlib2.0-cil libmono-system-management4.0-cil libmono-system-xml-linq4.0-cil

or full Mono :

sudo apt install mono-complete

Face Recognition During Delivery Mission

1. Update libraries:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

2. Installing Face Recognition Module:

sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake
sudo apt-get install python3-setuptools
sudo apt-get -y install python3-pip
sudo pip3 install dlib
sudo pip3 install face_recognition

3. Running the Delivery Recognition model:

cd ~/UAV Delivery Recognition 
python3 drone_delivery.py

Project Goal