Detailed design of tracking system that enable a Micro Aerial Vehicle (MAV), equipped with a pan-tilt gimbaled camera to be stabilized and to track the target, with target asin center of image. The algorithm performs automatic tracking of target while camera gimbal is moved according to the target position in image.2- Axis gimbal camera set up is made with servo motors and FPV 10x zoom camera.Gimbal camera set up is integrated with APM and XBee to replicate real set up of MAV in laboratory. And it is controlled with GCS set up made of joystick, XBee, Matlab and Mission Planner software. Thus, closed loop for control of gimbal camera designed. Image processing algorithm is used to track the target and to compute the position of target in image. Accordingly, control algorithm will generate control PWM signal for control of camera gimbal.
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