Autonomous Navigation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles based on Android Smartphone

In the past few years, the adoption of drone technology across industries has increased dramatically as more businesses started to recognize its potential, uses, and scale of global reach. This paper proposes a design solution of a smart GPS quadcopter aircraft navigation system, discusses its hardware and software implementation process and eventually, analyses and reports the final test results. The flight path of the quadrotor is remotely manipulated via an Android based Graphical User Interface. This outdoor handheld application al-lows the operator to select a point of interest through Google map satellite view; consequently, the quadrotor takes off then hovers and ultimately lands on the destination location. Instructions in conjunction with coordinates are sent and received throughout a web server which serves the communication operation between the smartphone and the quadrotor. Experimental results yield fruitful data communication and successful autonomous flight control with smooth and stable maneuvering.

@article{Bonny2019,
  title     = {Autonomous Navigation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles based on Android Smartphone},
  journal   = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
  volume    = {10},
  number    = {11},
  year      = {2019},
  publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
  author    = {Talal Bonny and Mohamed B. Abdelsalam},
  doi       = {10.14569/IJACSA.2019.0101179},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2019.0101179}
}