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1/10/2010
uday1489
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The idea of this project is to give intelligence to a small aircraft, so that it can fly autonomous without human intervention and take pictures,videos or perform a particular job. The system consists of a GPS receiver to track the position of the aircraft, thermopile sensors or accelerometers to sense roll, yaw and pitch(3degrees of freedom) of the aircraft. A video camera that can record and store on memory or transmit back wireless to a ground station(server or computer). A pattern recognition algorithm is implemented, using which occurrence of a particular pattern in the image captured triggers an activity.

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sverstegen Now this is really cool. Can't wait to see how your project turns out. I picked up a couple of the xBee 868 modules when they first came out (they were dirt cheap at the introductory price) with this very application in mind. 40km range is amazing isn't it?! Would love to get in touch once the contest is over and see how you tackled some of the big technical hurdles here. Great Project! shane@shanedotcom.com
uday1489 I have already built the aircraft. Used 2.4Ghz radio and tried using 2.4Ghz channel for video as well. Did'nt suceed using both simultaneously. 900Mhz and 868Mhz are not allowed in India. Got to use other frequencies. Using 2.4Ghz Zigbee Pro with 6db antenna.
rhfleming yeah. I would really love to see a Windows Embedded version of the parrot drone!

http://www.parrot.com/usa


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