Low-cost uav for medical delivery
International Journal of Development Research
Low-cost uav for medical delivery
Received 27th December, 2020; Received in revised form 20th January, 2021; Accepted 11th February, 2021; Published online 15th March, 2021
Copyright © 2021, Antonio Dantas, Leandro Diniz et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Due to the pandemic caused by the new coronavirus (COVID-19), many countries that already had financial and logistical difficulties in hospital medicines supplies were surprised by the contact restrictions that made this procedure difficult. As a solution for deliveries in a practical and efficient manner, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), popularly known as drones, have been employed to carry out the agile delivery operation in hard-to-reach, both internally and externally. The purpose of this article is to present a specific set of tools to efficiently and customized solve this problem at the lowest possible cost. The study results in a model for use in this task.
