Senior Design Group B
Welcome to our project D.E.A.R Drone! The D.E.A.R. Drone is an
autonomous delivery drone that has been created with the intent to
understand the scalability of delivery drones. In the past few
years, through the progression of machine learning and processing
powers continually increasing, it has allowed for the idea of
delivery drones to become a reality. This project utilizes machine
learning/computer vision to navigate autonomous flight in order to
drop a package of up to 0.5 pounds.
Our project was conceived to make a scalable proof of concept
automated delivery drone. This can and has helped solve supply chain
consumers quickly and safely. Our D.E.A.R delivery drone is a quad
copter, with 6000mAh battery and will be able to carry a half a
pound payload to its destinations safely. This idea was conceived
when we looked upon the world during Covid’s peak and understood
delivery to customers remotely was to be the future of fast and most
importantly, safe, delivery. We took inspiration from Amazon’s drone
program, which, while not large, is still a working drone delivery
service. We planned on beginning with the simplicity of drone
flight, working towards autonomous flight, and then incorporating
other features that would lead towards a more robust and workable
drone delivery platform at the end of the project.
