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Team members:

• Ben Houston
• Daniel Johnson
• Camden Mendiola
• Mantas Prekeris
• Daniel Rice

The objective of this project is to design and implement an autonomous flying quad-copter network. The aim of the aerial network is to sense environmental/optical data and transmit to a base station either through a point to point communication link or via a communication network that utilizes the IEEE 802.15.4 protocol, also known as Zigbee Standard.

There are multiple features that can be integrated into the autonomous flying quad-copter network, such as:

• Navigation/Obstacle Sensing:
  • Navigation utilizing GPS and digital compass, and obstacle sensing via ultrasonic devices.
• Implementation of multiple quad-copters on low cost and low power drop in network
  • Network infrastructure consists of mesh communication technology via XBee radio hardware.
• Bidirectional communication through camera
  • Relay data from flight camera to base station via looped call and response commands.
• Inductive coupling battery recharge
  • Flying device will automatically come back to a charging station when battery is low and inductively recharge and then proceed to originally assigned flight pattern.