A Design Procedure Towards a Drone for the Inspection of Coastal Built Cultural Heritage Sites

This paper aims to conduct several stages to present the systematic approach for designing a new drone for specific applications in field cultural heritage, this drone for exploration of historical places near the coasts and complex mountainous areas by termocamera. Firstly, we conducted a literature review through extensive research in several journals and assemble a grand number of literature and then the stage of filter and evaluate these drones this stage for extract the best information about the structural components and criteria required for cultural heritage application. Secondly, we present the result of the literature review through defining the criteria required for cultural heritage applications and present the proposed design using SolidWorks. Thirdly, we make an analysis of this structure through analysis of all force applied to this structure and represent the flow air entering the propeller discs of this drone. Fourthly, we extract the static equation of thrust of each motor and the equation of payload of the drone. Finally, we conduct Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis of this design by using SolidWorks and show the result and conclusion of this investigation.