Jamshedpur: Drona Aviation, a start-up venture that makes nano drones for various security and monitoring purposes, conducted a workshop that saw participation from corporate houses and students.
One of the first products of Drona Aviation is Pluto, the nano drone that was taught at the workshop held at the JRD Tata Sports Complex. Drona Aviation is one of the starts up ventures incubated by IIT Bombay. The founders are all alumni members of IIT Bombay.
Inaugurating the workshop, Sunil Bhaskaran, vice-president, corporate services, Tata Steel, said that the future is about drones as it’s a great innovation and can be used for various purposes in daily life.
The workshop conducted by former IITians focussed on what are drones. The speakers also spoke about the history of drones, its applications and how it is made. In fact the workshop required everybody to make their own drones.
Every participant was provided with a kit to make drones. In fact Drona Aviation sells these drones at Rs 4999 which are used for various purposes.
�There is a unique feeling in flying and we have a layman who knows nothing about mechanical engineering or robotics wanting to build a drone,” said Apurva Godbole, CEO of Drona Aviation. He noted that Drones also known as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) started mostly in military applications in the United States. Its use is expanding in commercial, scientific, agricultural, and other applications.
Officials informed that to make it fly , one needs to plug in Drona’s motherboard and get training on how to use the controller app.
The trainers explained the theory part which included propellers, sensors, actuators, frame parts batteries and motors. Later in the day executives of Tata Steel and a few students tried making drones.
