Improvement and Customization of Small Autonomous Copters for Monitoring and Diagnostics

Pilotless aircraft (drones) of copter type are able to solve numerous industrial problems very efficiently. Since mass-produced models do not always ensure efficient resource use, approaches to the modification and customization of mass-produced drones must be devised, tested, and introduced to improve their performance and productivity. A possible element of such a technology is considered in the present work, for the example of prototyping an asymmetric copter frame on the basis of reverse engineering and digital parametric modeling.