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A crescente utilização de ferramentas cada vez mais evoluídas e inteligentes no auxílio de tarefas nos nossos dias, são a prova consistente da sociedade moderna em que vivemos hoje. A rapidez com que a integração dessas novas tecnologias modifica o nosso quotidiano permite esquecer como era a vida antes da existência dessa tecnologia. O mesmo acontece com a adaptação dos multirotores à nossa sociedade actual. Devido às vantagens que este equipamento proporciona, é possível prever a sua aplicação às mais diversas áreas da nossa sociedade actual, tornando este equipamento cada vez mais comum no nosso quotidiano. A produção energética também beneficia destes avanços tecnológicos. Por esse motivo surge a constante necessidade aproveitar tecnologias emergentes de modo a encontrar formas mais económicas, rápidas e eficientes de a melhorar a qualidade do serviço prestado aos consumidores. Nesse sentido, a evolução da tecnologia dos veículos aéreos não tripulados veio oferecer novas possibilidades e melhorias na manutenção de infra-estruturas de energia. Os veículos aéreos não tripulados são naturalmente vocacionados para trabalhos perigosos ou altamente complexos do ponto de vista técnico. Por esse motivo, são previsíveis vantagens na eficiência, no aumento da segurança e na redução de custos nessas tarefas. Em função disso, actualmente faz sentido o uso destes sistemas em substituição ou complementação da vertente humana. Neste documento, pretende-se apresentar ao leitor as vantagens da aplicação do multirotor em tarefas de inspecção e manutenção de infra-estruturas de energia, como também desmistificar o equipamento. Nesse sentido, é realizada a sua apresentação e abordada a legislação em vigor, seguindo-se da descrição dos diferentes componentes que constituem o multirotor. De forma a demonstrar que a construção do nosso próprio drone é uma realidade, neste documento é ainda apresentada a criação de um DYI drone com a possibilidade de ser adaptado para missões de inspecção e manutenção de infra-estruturas de produção energética. Por fim, e de forma a dar um contributo para a aplicação deste tipo de veículo na inspecção e apoio de infra-estruturas de produção e distribuição de energia. É apresentado o desenvolvimento de uma solução que permite concentrar a atenção do piloto no controlo do VANT, como também obter ganhos na qualidade de captação de imagens.
The growing use of increasingly evolved and intelligent tools to aid our day-today tasks are the consistent proof of the modern society in which we live today. The speed with which the integration of these new technologies modifies our daily life allows us to forget what life was like before the existence of this technology. The same is true by adapting multirotor into our present society. Due to the advantages that this equipment provides, it is possible to predict its application to the most diverse areas of our current society, making this equipment increasingly common in our daily lives. Energy production also benefits from these technological advances. This is why there is a constant need to harness emerging technologies to discover cheaper, faster and more efficient ways of improving the quality of service provided to consumers. In this sense, the evolution of unmanned aerial vehicle technology came to offer new possibilities and improvements in the maintenance of energy infrastructures. Unmanned aerial vehicles are naturally geared to hazardous or highly complex jobs from a technical point of view. For this reason, advantages in efficiency, safety enhancement and cost reduction in these tasks are foreseeable. As a result, it now makes sense to use these systems to replace or complement the human dimension. In this document, it is intended to present to the reader the advantages of multirotor application in tasks of inspection and maintenance of energy infrastructures, as well as to demystify the equipment. In this regard, its presentation is made and the legislation in force is discussed, followed by a description of the different components that constitute the multirotor. In order to demonstrate that the construction of our own drone is possible, this document also presents the creation of a DIY drone with the possibility of being adapted for missions of inspection and maintenance of energy production infrastructures. Finally, to contribute to the application of this type of vehicle in the inspection and support of infrastructures of production and distribution of energy, it is presented the development of a solution which allows to concentrate the attention of the pilot in the control of the UAV, as well as to obtain gains in the quality of image capturing.
The growing use of increasingly evolved and intelligent tools to aid our day-today tasks are the consistent proof of the modern society in which we live today. The speed with which the integration of these new technologies modifies our daily life allows us to forget what life was like before the existence of this technology. The same is true by adapting multirotor into our present society. Due to the advantages that this equipment provides, it is possible to predict its application to the most diverse areas of our current society, making this equipment increasingly common in our daily lives. Energy production also benefits from these technological advances. This is why there is a constant need to harness emerging technologies to discover cheaper, faster and more efficient ways of improving the quality of service provided to consumers. In this sense, the evolution of unmanned aerial vehicle technology came to offer new possibilities and improvements in the maintenance of energy infrastructures. Unmanned aerial vehicles are naturally geared to hazardous or highly complex jobs from a technical point of view. For this reason, advantages in efficiency, safety enhancement and cost reduction in these tasks are foreseeable. As a result, it now makes sense to use these systems to replace or complement the human dimension. In this document, it is intended to present to the reader the advantages of multirotor application in tasks of inspection and maintenance of energy infrastructures, as well as to demystify the equipment. In this regard, its presentation is made and the legislation in force is discussed, followed by a description of the different components that constitute the multirotor. In order to demonstrate that the construction of our own drone is possible, this document also presents the creation of a DIY drone with the possibility of being adapted for missions of inspection and maintenance of energy production infrastructures. Finally, to contribute to the application of this type of vehicle in the inspection and support of infrastructures of production and distribution of energy, it is presented the development of a solution which allows to concentrate the attention of the pilot in the control of the UAV, as well as to obtain gains in the quality of image capturing.
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Veículo Aéreo Não Tripulado Drone DYI VANT Produção Distribuição Open Source Pixhawk Inspecção Energia RPA Legislação Planeamento de Missões Multirotor Manutenção Brushless Arduíno ESC PDB FPV VTX Protocolos Inav Mission Planner ArduCopter Unmanned aerial vehicle UAV Production Distribution Inspection Energy Legislation Mission Planning Maintenance Protocols