STUDY OF INFLUENCE OF QUADROCOPTER DESIGN AND SETTINGS ON QUALITY OF ITS WORK DURING MONITORING OF GROUND OBJECTS

Abstract

The subject of the article is methods of reducing quadcopter magnetometer crosstalk by changing the design and settings of the copter to improve the quality of its work during the monitoring of ground objects. The relevance of the development is determined by the need to increase the physical safety of quadcopters when monitoring ground facilities in various industries because the magnetometer is the most noise-sensitive sensor, and its failure leads to the fall and loss of the drone. The purpose of the article is to determine the optimal design and settings of the quadcopter in terms of its physical safety and quality of work during monitoring of ground facilities in various industries. The research task is to check whether it is possible to protect the magnetometer placed inside the drone body from the power cables crosstalk by grounding, shielding and changing the initial settings of the copter, namely by changing the value of the startup power factor of the motors. Research methods are as follows: theory of automatic control, methods of optimal control and hardware design methods. Conclusions. The role of the drone magnetometer in the monitoring of ground objects has been studied. The study has shown that copters at monitoring ground objects must be equipped with a magnetometer and GPS. The magnetometer is the most sensitive to interference of all sensors. If it does not work properly, the entire drone navigation system stops working. We have carried out experimental studies of the influence of quadcopter design and settings on the quality of its magnetometer work, and hence on work of the copter as a whole. In this paper it is proposed to place a magnetometer inside the body of the drone that will increase its physical safety and simplify the design of the drone, but at the same time it will increase the coupling from the power cables of motors, so it is necessary to choose effective methods of protection. It has been tested whether it is possible to protect the magnetometer from interference from power cables when placing it inside the drone body by grounding, shielding and changing the initial settings of the copter, namely by changing the value of the startup power factor of the motors. The results of the experiments showed that to protect against the interference for magnetometer placed inside the drone body, it is necessary to combine shielding of the magnetometer and decreasing of the startup power factor of the motors.

Keywords

• unmanned aerial vehicle
• drone
• quadcopter
• magnetometer
• crosstalk
• quality of work