ASTM 49903 — Capstone: Unmanned Vehicles in Precision Agriculture
To develop an understanding of remote sensing using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for crop production. demonstrate the components of typical multirotor and fixed wing UAVs and gain hands on experience of assembling and flying a multirotor UAV for aerial imaging. Students will learn basic principles of multirotor UAV parts and components sizing, motor and propeller sizing for payload requirements, UAV power sources and sizing, building a quad copter, calibration of electronic speed controller and other sensors, radio telemetry communication set up, mission planning and subsystem control with autopilot. Students will learn and explore how to customize a UAV for a site-specific precision agriculture application. Prerequisite: Senior standing. (Typically offered: Spring)