1. Autonomous Quadrotor Navigation & Guidance
Jonathan Blythe
Krzysztof Borowicz
Alyssa Hollander

2. Applications Mapping out a forest fire
Search and rescue inside of a building
Crop dusting
UAV delivery
Troop movement tracking
Quadrotor Autonomous Navigation & Guidance

3. Project Goal
Achieve real world execution of a planned route using vision-based guidance
Quadrotor Autonomous Navigation & Guidance

4. Quadrotor Actions and Abilities
Maintain constant flight altitude
Identify ground markers using on-board optics
Autonomously navigate from marker to marker
Identify “no fly” zones
Take fasted path out of zone to closest marker
Increase precision when near restricted zones
Land when lost
Manual override
Quadrotor Autonomous Navigation & Guidance

5. System Block Diagram
Quadrotor Autonomous Navigation & Guidance

6. Sensor Options Quadrotor Autonomous Navigation & Guidance
Quadrotor Autonomous Navigation & Guidance

7. Project Timeline A-Term B-Term C-Term D-Term 1 MQP Presentation 2 3 4
WEEK
A-Term
B-Term
C-Term
D-Term 1
Goals and Objectives
Literature Review/Methodology Draft
Code and Programming,
System Integration,
Methodology Revisions
Autonomous Flight Testing,
Debugging,
Paper Draft
MQP Presentation 2
Back Ground/Equipment Research 3
Purchase Equipment 4
Programming/Interface Software Research 5
Assembly
Results Section
Final Version of Paper,
Final Flight Tests 6
Modifications 7
General Aircraft Flight Test 8
Final Body Adjustments
Quadrotor Autonomous Navigation & Guidance

8. Division of Labor Quadrotor Autonomous Navigation & Guidance Week
Jonathan
Alyssa
Krzysztof
Group 3
Reverse
Engineering Code
System Power Draw Analysis 4
Code Editing
Flight Time Optimization
Chart Development
Quadrotor Assembly 5
Code for
Marker Recognition
Marker Development
Flight Testing
Quadrotor Autonomous Navigation & Guidance

9. Questions