CA5 for EE5110/EE6110 Selected Topics on Automation and Control Background Manual warehouse stock counting used to be a tiring, boring and (sometimes) dangerous job. A small-size unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) equipped with sensors and smart software algorithms can be a very good solution to automate such a process. Figure 1: Autonomous warehouse stock counting by UAV Work Requirements: Write a report to survey existing state-of-the-art hardware products and software methods and propose your own UAV system that an be used for such an autonomous stock counting task by considering the following mission requirements: - Maximum take-off weight of the UAV: Less than 3 kg - Autonomously fly and conduct stock counting for both left and right sides racks of a warehouse aisle with the following specifications and the mission must be finished within one take-off flight without battery change: o Aisle length: 80 m o Aisle width: 2.5 m o Aisle height: 8 m (5 layers of cargos with equally distributed layer heights) o Cargo information is encoded within a barcode facing the aisle You should mainly focus on the following 3 topics for the considerations of the system design: 1. Platform choice and component selection 2. Autonomous flight control 3. GPS-less navigation Report Format: - Size: A4 portrait - Font: Times New Roman 11.5 - Not more than 20 pages - Name your report as A1234567.pdf (where A1234567 is your matric number) Submission: Upload to LumiNUS system under Segment D submission folder before 15 November 2021, 12 noon. *Note that plagiarism and copying are serious offences and students caught doing so will be reported to university. Late reports will also be penalized (10% per day).
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