Fully Autonomous UAV

Ardu-pilot Mega (APM ver. 2.6) is the Flight Controller used in this project. It is a professional quality opensource auto-piloting firmware that is based on the Arduino Mega platform. This autopilot can also control fixed-wing aircraft, multi-rotor helicopters, as well as traditional helicopters. It is an autopilot capable of autonomous flight stabilization, way-point based navigation and two way telemetry with Xbee wireless modules. Supporting 8 RC channels with 4 serial ports. ArduPilot Mega consists of the main processor board which has all the complex sensors like Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Compass Module, and to this we've externally interfaced a GPS module, for GPS waypoint navigation. By using APM 2.6 module as the base we're trying out to make our Multirotor completely autonomous i.e, no human interference, the only thing we do, is give some GPS co-ordinates and a fixed altitude and a Hover speed to the APM module. Thus the model hovers to the co-ordinates and shoots the entire footage using a 'C.C.D camera module'and lively streams using 'TS832 multichannel Transmitter', to the 'RC832 -32 Channel receiver', which converts the received signal to pixels and shows the Live footage on screen. This entire setup on the ground is powered by 'Lithium polymer batteries'and is known as the Ground station when connected to a Computer. In Addition to this an opensource Android application will be exploited for usage through which all the commanding can be done directly.