Development of semi autonomous blimp UAV for civil applications

Abstract

This paper describes the design and development of semi autonomous Blimp based UAV for civil applications. Given that little research had been carried out in Sri Lanka as well as globally, about blimp based UA V, this also seeks to establish a design and development platform for further research and development on the subject and also edify the engineering community about prospective benefits of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles most of which are unexploited so far. The project mainly consists of a design phase, construction and implementation in which authors are at the moment, and testing and improvement phase where attempt to realize the ultimate goal of a commercially viable "green blimp" with integrated organic photovoltaic cells and GPS module which can further be developed into fully autonomous Blimp.