Design of an Aerial Manipulation System with Robotic Claw for Search and Rescue Operations

Abstract

The concept of Aerial Manipulation refers to the design of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle to work as a combined system in collaboration with an object grasping device. Over the past two decades there have been tremendous discoveries regarding the different methodologies used for aerial manipulation which yield the best results in terms of flight time, stability, object grasping and releasing. The Quadcopter is intended to serve as an aid in Search and Rescue Operations where the Drone’s presence will function as a better alternative to human resources. The focus of the proposed work is to enable the Drone to have a simple claw type grasping mechanism which is specially designed keeping in mind important designing specifications of the UAV such as stability, payload lifting capability etc. which will be single handedly controlled via the Flight Controller which is an ARM Cortex M4 based Microcontroller and with the help of an open source Autopilot powered GUI to set the navigation points via the telemetry module.