PROTOTYPING OF UNMANNED AERIAL & GROUND VEHICLE (UAGV)

Abstract

A hybrid of a quad-copter and an all-terrain tank has been called 'Unmanned Aerial and Ground Vehicle' or UAGV. Quad-copters during flight produce enough noise making them unfit for surveillance. If on-ground mobility is added to a quad-copter, it not only solves the problem of easy detection in the air due to noise production but also provides with flexible surveillance techniques. The UAGV has the ability to work on ground when it is upside down. This feature of the UAGV makes the design truly unique from other quad-copters in the market. In future the features like operation under water, inverted flight & better surveillance can also be incorporated. Most of these features are complex and lay outside the scope of this paper. The paper tries to give cost effective measures to improve upon some features of 'drones' used in the military, construction site monitoring and photography today.