 THE PROBLEM
Low visibility of security personnel in
military convoys and presidential
motorcades decreases their ability to
detect external threats.
 THE OBJECTIVE
Create an autonomous system that
increases situational awareness of
security personnel by providing them
with a ‘bird’s-eye’ view.
CONCEPT ART
 THE SOLUTION
Build an unmanned aerial quadcopter system
capable of autonomously following a ground
vehicle. Live video taken on the quadcopter is
streamed down to the vehicle where it is displayed
in a graphical user interface.
SYSTEM BLOCK DIAGRAM
 THE BASE STATION
> Laptop Computer
> Graphical User Interface
> Displays video stream
> Displays telemetry stream
> RC Interface Module
> Arduino development board
> Modified RC controller
> Adafruit GPS Module
> Wi-Fi Router
 THE QUADCOPTER
> MultiWii Flight Controller
> Flight sensors
> RC receiver
> Video Graphics Processing Unit
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Raspberry Pi development board
Raspberry Pi camera
Sends telemetry stream
Sends video stream
> MediaTek GPS Module
FINAL PROTOTYPE
Special thanks to
DornerWorks for
supporting this
project financially.
2014: Team 08