Design and Development of Human Machine Interface for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Control

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) also known as drone implies to a pilotless aircraft, a flying machine without a human pilot onboard. Most recently, UAV is widely used in civil and military based applications such as remote sensing, scientific research and aerial surveillance. In this study, a special drone with control mechanism was designed and developed. The main purpose was to build an efficient and user friendly remote control system to fulfill the deficiency of advanced control units. A graphical user interface (GUI) with touch screen was designed and implemented for motion control. The control unit had capability to reach each motor on UAV separately via duplex communication and control their speed precisely with pulse width modulation method (PWM). As a result of this study, a simple and efficient UAV system was developed that has ability to display and analyze the collected field data. An agricultural robot developed will be integrated with the proposed UAV in order to control the agricultural field operations.

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