The health of a drone may not have been something scientists paid much attention to earlier, but with Amazon having declared that they are going to start using drones to deliver packages, this has come to the forefront. A drone on a short leg 30 minute mission to deliver a package may not need to worry too much about its health, but what about a longer distance delivery.

When a drone needs to fly out for a long distance it should be able to monitor its systems and check in case there is a problem with aspect. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have come up with an algorithm that allows drones to do their own health check up on the way.

The number of things that can go wrong with a drone delivery are large. The safety of the drone, the correct address to make delivery at, the climatic conditions like rain and heavy winds, so many variables come into play. It is not possible for a drone to deal with a situation as it arises on the fly.

Serious amount of research goes into the programing of an algorithm that can help the drone cope with any emergency that may arise. It will be interesting to see if these experimental drone deliveries will actually match expectations or will they be yet another failed science project.