Abstract:

Recently, the areas of use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), especially in defense and entertainment, are expanding day by day. Product transportation is mainly carried out by people using fossil fuel vehicles. This situation brings many problems when we take into account the human factor. The use of autonomous drones in the field of product transportation will save time, fuel and manpower. Although there have been many initiatives in this regard until today, most of them are tools developed by private companies, where it is not possible to access the source code or make the necessary modifications on the tools if needed. At the same time, these vehicles often need to be managed by remote control. This leads to the development of competent pilots and the involvement of the human factor. In this study, it is aimed to prepare an open source application that enables communication with ArduPilot and drones over Mavlink. In this mobile application; the flight software was prepared with the DroneKit library and the software for sending mission information to the vehicles using Flutter. With the application obtained as a result of this study, users can carry products autonomously with commercial drones that support ArduPilot or with drones they have built.

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