Design and Development of Multipurpose Quadcopter Using Fused Deposition Modeling

The manufacturing of products using rapid prototyping is centered on production technology in this era. Concept designs of drone bodies and mounting structures can be manufactured by using this rapid prototyping and 3D printing technology. In the presented paper, a bio-degradable quad-configuration drone has been designed, manufactured, and tested. The complete drone has been 3D printed with the fused deposition modeling technique. This work mainly focuses on the design and development of structurally optimized drones and object-picking mechanisms. The flexible mountings are given to the base plate of the drone to fit any type of application-based working mechanism. By performing topological optimizations, the weight of the drone body is greatly reduced due to a thirty percent mass reduction at the drone arm as compared to commercial drone bodies available on the market.