This project aims at developing the hardware and control system, to stabilize an unmanned aerial vehicle in air, make it hover, travel to desired destinations autonomously given GPS waypoints as well as use artificial vision to locate and identify target buildings and open windows, for the purpose of surveillance. The project is thus multi-disciplinary and aims to make use of different aspects of electrical engineering, long distance communication, control systems as well as artificial vision processing to achieve the objective.

The project requires small light-weight critical sensors to sense angular velocities, accelerations along the three coordinates and inertial systems such as magnetometers, altitude sensors with pressure gauges and GPS system with a GPS antenna to give information about the heading with respect to the earth's magnetic field, height and GPS coordinates. These sensors need to be utilized to ensure that the vehicle remains balanced, aware of its position with respect to a base station as well as its heading, attitude, and height. The subsequent chapters describe all the aspects of the UAV like constructional details, hardware used, control system, embedded system, PCB designing, robotic vision and some aspects which are still under active development.