Research on the Effectiveness of Modelling of Autonomous Flight System for Monitoring Agricultural and Industrial Sites

Abstract

Unmanned systems (drones) have been widely used for both military and civilian purposes for many years. Knowing the capabilities of the different systems allows for the right selection in preparation for a specific task, and each task requires the correct selection of the flight system, scientific and navigation equipment. The application of these systems has grown enormously in various fields such as: leisure, information and media, monitoring and inspection (electrical, pipelines, industrial installations), geological sciences (agriculture, environment) and civil safety (search and rescue), police operations, crowd control, and more).The report describes the analysis and assessment of the feasibility of an effective model of autonomous flying systems for monitoring agricultural and industrial sites. It demonstrates the usefulness of multi-rotor unmanned systems not only in popular and advertised applications of unmanned aerial vehicles in the media, but also in agriculture. The report shows an approach for automatically adapting the system to the conditions for collecting the necessary high quality data. A model has selected that uses unmanned quad-copter, hardware platform Pixhawk and ArduPilot, designed for non-commercial videos and photos of arable land.