Embedded Payload Solutions in UAVs for Medium and Small Package Delivery

Investigations about the feasibility of delivery systems with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones have been recently expanded, owing to exponential demand for goods be delivered in recent years, which has further increased by COVID-19 pandemic. UAV can provide new contactless strategies, addition applications medical items, such as blood, medicines, vaccines. The safe is paramount applications, facilitated if payload embedded main drone body. In this paper, we investigate solutions medium and small package (up 5 kg) a medium-sized (maximum takeoff less than 25 kg), focusing on (i) (packaging hosted fuselage), (ii) compatibility transportation (iii) user-oriented design (usability safety). We evaluate process possible solutions, from an analysis (material selection, shape definition, product industrialization) integration fuselage (possible comparison quick-release systems). present prototype industrialized package, right prism octagonal section made high-performance double-wall cardboard, introduce set concepts system, are compared six functional parameters (mass, realization, accessibility, locking, protection, resistance). Further analyses already ongoing, aim integrating monitoring control capabilities into assess condition during transportation.