Unmanned Micro Aerial Vehicle or Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), popularly known as Drone, is an airborne
system or an aircraft operated remotely by a human operator or autonomously by an onboard computer. To design and fabricate
an Areca Nut Harvesting Module, relevant literature was studied to better define the objective. Engineering design is a
methodological process and thus design process was started from vehicle configuration, harvesting module configuration,
propulsion system configuration, aircraft geometry and analysis of different rotor configurations. Once deciding on the final
design of aircraft, lift and drag force distribution was done on the model. By calculating loading over the drone shear force
diagram and bending moment diagram was plotted manually and compared with ANSYS. Fabrication began with the process of
selecting the ideal material for the harvesting module, cutting the material into required dimensions and assembly of the final
model that would be mounted on the drone.
