Autonomous Landing Pad with a Closed Cover for a Medium-Sized Drone to Support Typical Research and Reconaissance Tasks in the Local Environment
摘要
The paper presents an autonomous docking and charging station for a medium-sized quadcopter flying drones. It is equipped with a landing platform and also has the features of a garage box, constituting a small storage hangar for a medium-sized drone to support civilian missions in the local environment. The article describes the assumptions of the project, the purpose of the work, potential areas of application of such a station, its basic components and presents the characteristics of the system supporting autonomous missions supported by a drone. The project was implemented in 2020–2022 at the Warsaw University of Technology in Poland.