This is my UAV project. The goal is to make a aircraft that will travel to a preset destination take a picture and back to the starting positon.

To do this I will use a GPS for navigation, a pressure sensor to hold altitude, and an infrared autopilot system to fly the plane. A micro controller will take in data from the GPS, and other sensors, and output correct data to the guiding system to make the plane follow the route through it´s check points and return with a photo of the target.

A Brushless electric motor connected to li-po batterys will power the UAV, estimated duration is 25min, approx 20km range.

Robin Stanton is currently developing the AVR micro controller that will read the GPS coordinates and translate it to servo movement to stear towards the target. The chip it self is a ATmega8 RISC processor. It has 8Kb self-programming Flash Program Memory. Up to 16 MIPS throughput at 16 Mhz, but we will run it at 8Mhz. Which is more than enough to stear the plane and trigger a camera, it even has extra outputs for controlling navlights.

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