4G Surveillance Drone (Final Year Project)

By Oluwafemi Oreoluwa

In the partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering, I began the engineering design of an e-UAV and completed implementation four days to final year defense.This project aimed at reducing CO2 emissions contributed during aerial surveillance in the aviation industry by introducing a Network of electric 4G Surveillance Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.

Design

System Design	Network Diagram

Ground Station Software

The Mission planner software was used as a ground station software for this final year project.Note: some versions are buggy although the software works if you follow the installation and setup instructions properly.

• About Mission Planner
• Install Mission Planner

End Results

Frame Material
Final Assembly
Flight

See Useful Tutorials

• How to make Quadcopter frame
• How to make Quadcopter drone with APM 2.8 and GPS | APM 2.8 connections (Part 1) | step by step
• APM 2.8 flight controller setup | How to make Quadcopter with APM2.8(Part 2) | Mission planner setup
• APM 2.5 Ardupilot controller- setup guide 1 of 4
• Autonomous Drone with ArduCopter pixhawk and OpenCV.

See Flight Video

• Test Flight 1
• Test Flight 2