IIT Guwahati Aims to Develop ‘Smart Drones’ for Warehouse Management, Military and Law Enforcement

IIT Guwahati to develop smart drones

New Delhi: The aeromodelling club at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati has developed a number of drones, including "Warehouse drones" for warehouse management, "Reaper drones" for military and law enforcement, and "Ornithopter" based on the design of birds for surveillance in confined spaces (IIT-G).

According to an official, the club is pushing students to use creativity, technology, and innovation in aeromodelling to produce intelligent drones with user-friendly interfaces. IIT Guwahati department of chemistry professor Chivukula Vasudeva Sastri stated that the club has created a variety of drones, including "Warehouse drones" for warehouse management, "Reaper drones" for military and law enforcement, "Ornithopter" based on the design of birds that can be used for surveillance in confined spaces, for wildlife photography, and "RAVEN," an indigenously developed VTOL (Vertical Takeoff and Landing)

"In addition to these projects, students have created a drone that can shoot at targets with extreme precision. The firing mechanism is made to return to its original position at the pilot's order for the subsequent fire, "Added he. Warehouses are among the most challenging environments to maintain in the real world, according to Sastri, because they require several repetitive operations like inventory monitoring or moving items to new locations.

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Any delay in completing these activities can result in significant financial losses. The inventors have created a drone to take over such labor-intensive tasks that require time-consuming repeated physical activity in order to reduce human inefficiency. The utility of the drone can be changed, Sastri added, "from understanding the flow of water in agricultural lands to delivering goods within a city by employing line following algorithms along roadways, it can also be utilised for speedier identification of objects in the inventory of industries."

An indigenously created unmanned aerial vehicle named "Reaper" is primarily intended for use by the military and law enforcement for tasks including target identification and tracking, among others, as well as patrolling. "Hyperspectral imaging can be employed by the drone to aid disaster management teams in their search for injured or stranded individuals during natural catastrophes like floods or earthquakes. Its ability to gather information on animals in any national parks or wildlife sanctuaries and analyse their behaviour is another purpose "Sastri tacked on.

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