PURE Learning Plan Student: Kiarash Akhlaghi Feizasar Supervised By: Joseph Degol and Miles Johnson Project: Avionics For Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Project Details Building Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) Desired application would be to be used on construction sites for safety monitoring purposes In the past we have flown fixed wing and quad rotor UAVs, containing micro controller and single board systems These systems are equipped with a variety of sensors including accelerometers, gyroscopes, magnetometers, GPS, camera, etc.

Hands-on experience So far, our goal has been to setup a single board computer to record the input data from UAV sensors in real-time. In order to achieve our goal we have: Setup a Beaglebone single-board computer system to run Linux and be able to compile C/C++ programs Setup a PWM signal generator to simulate different sensor outputs Setup an Arduino board to read the PWM signals from the PWM and send them to the Beaglebone board

Future goals Previously, our challenge had been to simultaneously retrieve and record data for each sensor at its normal rate This project hopes to use a dedicated single-board computer to integrate the data streams from each of the systems sensors Ultimately, our system would be able to receive multiple inputs from the sensors by an Arduino board and send them in serial to the Beaglebone computer system to log the sensors’ colleced data in real-time