MithunWilliam770

Thanks guys for your valuable suggestion..... If I am controlling the helicopter using GPS assistance, can I fly it in small open areas such as a play ground. I am talking about the resolution of the gps device.What is the smallest distance between two points that can be set so that the GPS device can clearly distinguish those two points. If anyone has knowledge about GPS devices please share...... Thank you all for your time.....

Dear Friends, I want to make a remote controlled helicopter with a camera attached that can stream live video to my computer. For this I am planning to buy an RC toy helicopter and a wireless live streaming video camera. I want to control the helicopter with help of LabVIEW software and the streamed video from the camera, which is attached to the helicopter, to be displayed in LabVIEW's Front Panel. This is for my college project and when I have discussed this with my guide, he told me that a helicopter with a camera attached is nothing much for a project. So I thought about adding some exciting features to make the project worth doing. I have decided to add an auto pilot capability to the helicopter so that when an alarm condition is triggered the helicopter ,which was previously in off state resting on a helipad , starts to fly by itself to the alarm location previously set in LabVIEW and when it reaches the alarm location, starts streaming live video to LabVIEW's front panel. At the alarm location I must be able to diasble auto pilot mode and manually control the helicopter. Since virtual buttons in the front panel of LabVIEW is difficult to use for the control of motion of helicopter, I thought about attaching a gaming joystick to the computer and configure LabVIEW to use it as the helicopter control device. Again, when I have done streaming video from the alarm location, at the push of the "Return Home" key on the LabVIEW front panel, the camera should turn off, auto pilot mode should again be triggered and the helicopter must return to the helipad automatically and turn off. Also while video streaming, to prevent the crashing of the helicopter due to low battery, auto pilot must get strictly enabled overriding manual mode automatically and the helicopter must reach the helipad before the battery gets depleted. Since I am new to LabVIEW, I need help. Please share your ideas and experience regarding the scope of LabVIEW for this project. If possible please provide sample .vi files as attachment that may be helpful for this project. Please tell me what additional components should I buy like data aqusition cards, distance meter , battery meter etc to aid this project. Please suggest a good RC heliopter, a wireless camera and a joystick too if possible. I badly need to do this project since it was my idea and I don't want it to be rejected by my guide due to the absence of the auto pilot mode. I cannot use GPS since I will be flying it in a small area at my college. I was thinking of providing a virtual map instructing the helicopter to fly a certain distance in a certain direction in order to reach a particular alarm location. But I don't know how to create a virtual map or anything else that will guide the helicopter using LabVIEW. Please help me build this project. Thank you for your help and valuable time.... If I have posted in the wrong section, please forgive me........