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My project requires my UAV to fly autonomous and be able to track a particular still target on the ground. I will be provided with the GPS coordinates of the target and I am intending to do the following to accomplish that. Please provide feedback on this:

1) With the target GPS and position fix of the plane, I will be able to compute the angle with respect to the north. Input from ArduIMU will feed in the heading of the aircraft and I can subtract it to calculate for the pan angle of the camera mounted under the belly of the aircraft.

2) Roll and pitch angles from the IMU will compensate the tilt orientation of the camera by having another 2 servos to control the roll/pitch axes. 

Have some problems here:

1) I have 1 IMU onboard which will feed its data into the Ardupilot before transmitting back to the ground station for telemetry updates. How can I split the parameters collected by the IMU into 2 and feed it into the Ardupilot and another microprocessors to run my servos for the camera?

2) Will Arduino be able to support my above computation for the pan angle? and which Arduino chip is recommended?

Apologies if I sound too amateurish. This is something really new to me. Thanks for the help peepz!