Jeremy Tillman William Ehlhardt Heather Barrett Daeho Hong

 The FlySpy project is an autonomous aircraft that flies to waypoints given by GPS coordinates. While at these coordinates, the aircraft will be capable of taking photographs of the location with an onboard camera.

 RC Airplane with Rx/Tx  Camera  Accelerometers and Gyros  Barometer  GPS Receiver  Range Finder  SD Card

 Ability to control airplane’s control surfaces and throttle  Ability to read/write flight information to non- volatile memory  Ability to take pictures with onboard camera  Ability to autonomously navigate to GPS coordinates  Ability to calculate orientation of the vehicle

 Microcontroller - Microchip PIC24FJ256GA110 ▪ 9 input Capture ports ▪ 5 output Compare ▪ 4-UART, 3-SPI ▪ 16 ATD Channel  Camera - Nikon CoolPix s7c ▪ Weight (4oz) ▪ Slim ▪ Len not retractable

 Accelerometer – Analog Devices ADXL330 ▪ Three Axis Reading ▪ +/- 3g ▪ Low noise ▪ 3 ATD Channel Consumption  Gyro – Invensense IDG300 ▪ Two Axis ▪ +/- 500 Degrees/second ▪ 2 ATD Channel Consumption  Barometer – SCP 1000 ▪ SPI interface ▪ 17-bit resolution

 GPS Receiver – uBlox LEA-4P ▪ Operates at 4Hz ▪ 2.5m Circular Error Probability ▪ UART and USB Interfaces  Range Finder – Maxsonar EZ-1 ▪ Range of 6m ▪ Option of PWM & Analog interfacing  Step Down Converter - LTC1174 ▪ 94% Efficiency ▪ Vin ranges of 4V – 18.5

 1.8” X 5” Area  PCB will be mounted inside the cockpit  Packaging Camera and Rangefinder on bottom of Aircraft  Placing Antenna on back end of fuselage

 File System Input  Regular txt file format  Line by line command instructions ▪ [Latitude_Coord] [Longitude_Coord] [Altitude] [Pic?]  File System Output  XML File format  Log with timestamps ▪ Position ▪ Orientation ▪ Controls

 Hardware  PCB Design completed (March 13 th )  PCB Soldering (March 27 th )  Packaging Complete (March 30 th )  Software  Port Configurations (March 20 th )  Initial Autopilot Program for Comparison Flight ( April 1 st )  Configured Autopilot Program/First Flight(April 8 th )  Final Software Solution (April 17 th )