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

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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

5. Implementation

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

7. IMU
Tiny
ADXL345 accelerometer
ITG-3200 gyro
3.3V input

8. Budget

9. Project Timeline

10. Questions??