Projeto de uma placa de desenvolvimento para mini drone

Abstract

Drone is a popular nickname for unmanned aerial vehicles and micro aerial vehicles. Its use has received importance mainly due to its very refined autonomous navigation resources, where it has gained more and more space and has proven to be useful in various applications and areas, such as agriculture for example. Given this context, the great importance of the development of this field of research in our country is noted, which must follow the main technological trends, as well as make its contribution to the revolution that intends to transform the world as we know it today. It is therefore necessary to graduate qualified professionals to work in this constantly growing area, and more than that, it is of great importance that robotics can be demystified in order to encourage the training of people qualified to work in this area. In addition, it is also necessary to offer very well equipped laboratories that allow the full development of research, where tools such as development boards are essential, as they facilitate the execution of projects and encourage the learning of a certain technology. Currently, there are hundreds of development boards and each one with a certain focus, but most are not related to the development of exclusive technology for drones, which makes the task of finding a development board for drones a task with high complexity, mainly when its use is for project creation and research. Aiming to fill this gap, the present work presents the design of a printed circuit board equipped with all the necessary hardware for a little drone to be able to fly and be remotely controlled. It focuses on low cost, security and all the necessary features to be considered as a development board, and to be used as an educational and research tool. The work describes all the theoretical and technical basis necessary for its development, in addition to reporting the experiences acquired with the development of the first little drone prototype and the manufacturing process in the country. As a result of the project, the printed circuit board manufacturing files, as well as the list of components generated during the development of the project, were validated and are ready to be manufactured by the company JLCPCB.