ACKNOWLEDGMENT
First
of all we are thankful to ICT R&D ministry for approval of our project for National Grassroots ICT Research Initiative, and
appreciate their step for motivation of students.
Secondly we are
thankful to all authorities of our department and NED University especially our
project supervisor for their guidance and cooperation to achieve this sponsorship
and opportunity.
Executive
Summary:
To travel from one place to another
is basic need of human life. And helicopter are one of that ways to travel.
Technological development have made
this.travel more faster and safer. Beside this electronic and digital
inventions have made it more safe by reducing or eliminating human error. With
that there was always a need to get flight data and accurate navigation to know
the exact position of flying object.
When all this has done there comes a
need of an autonomous flight, to make your vehicle such intelligent to take of,
fly and land safely itself specially for military purpose.
Our Basic idea is to do all this things
on small scale also to show feasibility. Also to enable a helicopter to takeoff
, fly and land autonomously and to navigate its way
either by itself or user entered checkpoints.
With it also to
take flight data from autonomous flight and show it on a user display or
computer screen on master end
Scope
This project covers scope for
· Public safety projects for Search & Rescue in a specific hazardous area
Can guide directly
to avoid time consumption.
· Security purpose for Surveillance can keep watch on an area non-stop by automatically
landing and refueling from ground stations in or near the area.
· Aerial Mapping for precise allocation of object for
civil engineers and surveyors because can
fly in smaller and more constrained areas to build highly detailed elevation
map
· Military/
weapon guidance.
Research
Objectives:
- To
develop self flying ability in helicopter.
- To implement procedures for autonomous
navigation of helicopter.
- Search ways to have flight like auto pilot.
With all these project
covers wide range of topics like
· Aeronautics
· Navigation
· GPS
· USB to serial interface/serial interface
· Data acquisition
These
developments can figure out the defects in previous system, developments which
should be necessary for better flight and other aspects also.
Testing Hardware
Hardware for interface testing
For Helicopter testing
PWM TESTING
Helicopter during PWM testing
GPS HARDWARE TESTING
First GPS is tested on computer, for this purpose we connected GPS with computer through FTDI breakout board
the results on serial software PUTTY and GPS mini are attached
Video of GPS hardware testing is in Files Catalog section
readings are
