Rudra Timsina Micah Lucas Marc Salas Advisor: Richard Messner Quadcopter ECE 791/792 Rudra Timsina Micah Lucas Marc Salas Advisor: Richard Messner

Project Summary The drone technology has been used by US government in many countries to end the terrorism. The unmanned aerial vehicle is remotely controlled and can monitor any suspicious activities in a particular region. This kind of technology can save the lives of military while searching for terrorist activities. Our goal in this project is to design a quadcopter that has an ability to fly on its own to a given location and come back to the user’s station. It will use the GPS address provided by the user to fly to that location. The primary goal is to make it fly with a given GPS point and if time permits the quadcopter will have a feature of video surveillance that can provide real time activities in that location. The quadcopter will be easy to modify in both coding and physical additions. Making it easy to prototype additional features and designs without having to repurpose the entire quadcopter.

Objective Our goals for the quadcopter is to be able to fly for 30 minutes, have an operational range of at least 1km be able to lift around 3 lbs max, including the weight of the quadcopter. The quadcopter should also be easily modifiable in both coding and hardware. Once the quadcopter is built we would like to add GPS guidance so that the copter can go to locations that we give it coordinates for. Additionally the copter needs basic obstacle avoidance so it can get to the location without being stopped by trees or buildings.

Specific task to achieve goal Built Frame Motor control using an Electronic Speed Controller (ESC’s) Flight stabilization with Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) Obstacle avoidance with ultrasonic range finders Interfacing sensors with Arduino mega Interfacing quadcopter with remote control Implementation of GPS unit

Implementation

ESC Low internal resistance Supports high RPM motor Soft acceleration start ups Motor rotation (Clockwise/counterclockwise) Over heat and overload protection

IMU Tiny ADXL345 accelerometer ITG-3200 gyro 3.3V input

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