Toby Lankford (also known as tlankford1) is a farmer in Amarillo, Texas, and he also claims to be an inventor and developer. In fact, he is currently working on a full 3D printed aircraft, Icarus 3.0. This is a drone that can be powered by solar or hydrogen. Lankford wants to use it to catch some bad guys, such as poachers, and it is also used by Lankford to participate in the 2015 Hackaday competition. Lankford participates in this competition every year, which requires inventors to be creative and able to provide serious solutions.
As a farmer from Texas, Lankford is most interested in using drones and robots to help him manage his farms and use them to patrol and catch poachers in the wild. What is especially impressive is that the place where he lives has no network for many years.
“I use civilian drones and ground robots to investigate anti-poaching in multiple areas. I like to work in an open source way and overcome some development and application challenges. In more than three years, our lives are completely Network isolation, our hacking space and everything we develop is disconnected from the network," Lankford said.
Lankford's latest project, Icarus 3.0, is also an open source project for 3D printing. It is capable of automatic take-off and landing and is said to be the longest flight time below 5g. In addition to this, it has some other features:
Fast loading and switching energy
Using solar energy as the main source of power, using hydrogen as an alternative energy source
Can fly 200 kilometers in 180 minutes
Support "disregard after launch", from launch to landing to achieve autonomy
As for ground control, Lankford's design supports multiple users and cloud platforms, and can provide portable or fixed base stations. According to China's 3D printing network, it also has antenna tracking, communication and group control capabilities. In addition, to help users discover and capture poachers, Lankford also installed custom image recognition software and TCP/IP cloud control for the system to view or control anywhere in the world. Obviously, shooting equipment and sensors are important to this project.
Lankford uses a LOKI sensor system with a brushless universal joint that can load up to 150 grams of camera equipment. Lankford used a 90-gram camera, plus a two-axis universal joint with a total weight of 170 grams and a total diameter of 3.5 inches.
“We can use high-end camera modules to capture infrared, multispectral and visible images and video,†Lankford said. "All camera modules are digitally connected, and of course the aircraft communicates over long distance networks or GSM modules. We provide a real-time encrypted link."
The complete list of Icarus 3.0 solar drones is as follows:
Odroid U3 - Linux-based Unbuntu embedded processor
Range Video RVJET Flying Wing for the fuselage
Cyclops C UAV for the body
Piksi RTK GPS - centimeter-accurate RTK GPS
Pixhawk AP - Autopilot
DroneDeploy cloud communication for mobile network communications
铱9252 for satellite modem communication
Machine Vision USB camera for multi-spectral machine vision for ID software
Thermal imaging camera with night ops machine vision
RFID
Flexible Solar Panels - Alta Devices Gallium Arsenide Battery Assemblies
Lankford's ultimate goal is to prevent poaching of rhinos and elephants through the use of this 3D printing drone. “I want to use the application of drones as a tool to improve society and the environment. Poaching is currently the most problematic problem, and we are at a critical juncture to push rhinoceros and elephants to extinction,†Lankford said. "We hope that this anti-poaching cloud drone system will give some answers."
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