Design and Implementation of a Multirotor Unmanned Aircraft System for Target Tracking

This paper presents the design, development and deployment of an unmanned aircraft system and a target tracking technique for the videos transmitted from it. The design of unmanned aerial system (UAV) is robust and provides relying results in terms of endurance and altitude. The dynamics involved in design and the building blocks of the UAV is discussed. The camera mounted in the UAS transmits the video to the ground control station, and the data are used for target tracking. Mean shift-based approach is proposed. In mean shift algorithm, there are many limitations and one of the most important limitations is that the window always has the same size when object is farther away and it is very close to camera. We need to adapt the window size with size and rotation of the target. The problem is solved by continuously adaptive mean shift algorithm. The algorithm is implemented on the live data transmitted. The results are portrayed to justify the efficiency in design and tracking application.