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This work presents a tracking system for autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and any ground vehicle using global positioning system (GPS) and general packet radio service (GPRS). A Google form is created and a Google spreadsheet is set as destination location to store Google form responses on ground station. Whenever UAV is flying autonomously, GPS finds its current location (latitude and longitude). Thereafter, GPRS sends hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) request which consists of the current location of a UAV and submits a response in Google form and Google spreadsheet. A custom function is added in a Google spreadsheet to monitor the path of an UAV on static Google map using Google Apps Script (GAS).
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Thakkar, D., Rajput, P., Dubey, R., Parekh, R. (2019). Design and Implementation of Autonomous UAV Tracking System Using GPS and GPRS. In: Panigrahi, C., Pujari, A., Misra, S., Pati, B., Li, KC. (eds) Progress in Advanced Computing and Intelligent Engineering. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 714. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0224-4_39
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