Focus: Hardware, UAV assembly, sensor integration, flight operations, and reliable data collection. Key Responsibilities 1. Drone Assembly & Platform Setup

Select and assemble a UAV frame compatible with a Jetson Nano (or Orin Nano) compute board.
Integrate:
Downward-facing global shutter camera
Multiple IMUs (e.g., BNO085, VN-100, MPU-6000) for experimentation
Power supply, ESCs, flight controller (PX4-based)
Vibration isolation mounts and wiring harness

2. Sensor Interfacing & Calibration

Integrate the camera and IMU to the Jetson platform via USB/CSI/I2C/SPI/UART.
Perform:
Camera intrinsics calibration (AprilGrid / Kalibr)
CameraIMU extrinsics calibration
IMU noise characterisation (Allan variance)

3. Flight Software & Safety

Configure PX4 for manual and autonomous waypoint missions.
Develop routines for:
Takeoff 150 m - 300 m altitude fixed path landing
Data logging (camera, IMU, timestamps, sync monitoring)
Implement safety checks:
Failsafes
Battery thresholds
Controlled descent

4. Data Collection Operations

Conduct repeated flights over the same area at different times of day.
Ensure:
Stable downward-facing imagery
Consistent overlap
Precise trajectory replication

Deliverables (Role 1)

Fully assembled, airworthy UAV platform.
At least 610 usable datasets from repeated flights at 50 m - 300 m.
Calibration and flight documentation.

UAV Platform Engineering Intern

Druma Technologies

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