Project Title: Survey of Agricultural Land and

Construction Site Using Drone.

Summary of Project Idea:

􏰀 Goals & Objectives:

What will this project accomplish?
This project will determine the technical and economic
feasibility, and quantify any environment and social benefits,
of utilizing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) for precision
application in agriculture and construction site. The project
will also serve to understand the use of UAVs as a tool for
performing application by farmers and contractors to expand
their business model.

Tools Used in this project

Both hardware and software tool are used in this project.

Hardware used
 Dji f450
 Pixhawk microcontroller
 4 ESC(Electronic Speed Controllers)s.
 4 Brushless DC motors(1000KV)
 4 rotary blades.
 Fr-sky Taranis Digital Telemetry Transmitter-
Receiver(Fr-sky X8R) system.
  RGB camera.
Software used
 Mission planner software

Drone Control Software: The Mission Planner

Mission Planner is a free, open-source, community-
supported application developed by Michael Oborne for the
open-source APM autopilot project. It is a full-featured
ground station application for the ArduPilot open source
autopilot project. It is compatible with Windows only.
Mission Planner can be used as a configuration utility or as a
dynamic control supplement for your autonomous vehicle.
A few features which the Mission Planner provides are-
 Load the firmware (the software) into the autopilot (APM,
PX4...) that controls your vehicle.
 Setup, configure, and tune your vehicle for optimum
performance.
 Plan, save and load autonomous missions into you
autopilot with simple point-and-click way-point entry on
Google or other maps.
 Download and analyse mission logs created by your
autopilot.
 Interface with a PC flight simulator to create a full
hardware-in-the-loop UAV simulator.
 With appropriate telemetry hardware you can:
o Monitor your vehicle’s status while in operation.

o Record telemetry logs which contain much more

information the the on-board autopilot logs.

o View and analyse the telemetry logs.

o Operate your vehicle in FPV (first person view)

How this mission planner software will help to

accomplish the task?
Drone is an autonomous aerial vehicle. No human is present
in the vehicle at the time of its flight. Thus, the drone is
either controlled by using a remote or autonomously by on
board computers. So, now let us see how drones are
controlled by software in a more details. The software that
we use is an Integral part of the autonomous flight. When
the software controls the drone all the operations that needs
to be performed are done by the software thus we can say
the software is the integral part of the drone.

The software firstly predetermines the path of the traversal.

It calculates all the parameters flight height, flight time,
return-to-home (in case of low battery), fail-safe (in case of
GPS connection lost/ hardware failure).

This software also predetermines the area it needs to cover

from which it gives us the flight time i.e. the time that the
drone will take to cover the entire area.

From the figure in the previous page we can see that there
are yellow and red lines present in the area that the drone is
going to cover. Along with that there are the numberings;
this defines the path that the drone is going to cover. The red
line is the area the drone is going to cover and yellow lines
are the path the drone is going to take in order to complete
the given operation. It also gives us the no. of images it going
to take while completing the operation. After all of the
parameters are calculated and if we are satisfied with it, click
on the accept button on the bottom right to complete the
given operation.

Using Drones to Capture Construction Progress Photos

The documentation at the workplace is essential for all

general contractors. If you need to share the status of a
project with customers and stakeholders, monitor site
changes over time, or resolve requests in the future, you
need to capture progress photos during a project.

Drones are fast becoming the reference tool for workplace

documentation. And for good reason: drones provide aerial
perspectives, along with accurate visual data, to help your
team make better decisions at work. They also save time and
money, improve communication and increase security.
Construction customers use drones to photograph their work
site. However, the manual flight of an unmanned aircraft to
perform single corner shots of project can be difficult,
especially when you have to repeat this process week after
week to document the latest changes.

Here's where the progress photos come from. It is the first

solution to automate the visual documentation of the site
during the entire life cycle of a project.

Now you can plan automatic photo drone flights from your
desktop or mobile device, capture more points of interest on
your site and generate professional progress reports to share
with customers and stakeholders in minutes using mission
planner software.