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).