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Drone Development from Concept to Flight

You're reading from  Drone Development from Concept to Flight

Product type Book
Published in Apr 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837633005
Pages 316 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
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Author (1):
Sumit Sharma Sumit Sharma
Profile icon Sumit Sharma

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1: Fundamentals of Flight Engineering
2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with UAV and Drone Engineering 3. Chapter 2: Understanding Flight Terminologies and the Physics of Motion 4. Chapter 3: Learning and Applying Basic Command and Control Interfaces 5. Chapter 4: Knowing UAV Systems, Sub-Systems, and Components 6. Part 2: System Conceptualization and Avionics Development
7. Chapter 5: The Application of Sensors and IMUs in Drones 8. Chapter 6: Introduction to Drone Firmware and Flight Stacks 9. Chapter 7: Introduction to Ground Control Station Software 10. Chapter 8: Understanding Flight Modes and Mission Planning 11. Part 3: Configuration, Calibrations, Flying, and Log Analysis
12. Chapter 9: Drone Assembly, Configuration, and Tuning 13. Chapter 10: Flight Log Analysis and PIDs 14. Chapter 11: Application-Based Drone Development 15. Chapter 12: Developing a Custom Survey Drone 16. References 17. Index 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Drone configurations

After assembling the drone, we need to configure it so that it can fly. We’ll need to conduct a series of steps to configure the drone based on AeroGCS. We studied the various options that are available in AeroGCS previously, so here, we’ll quickly go through the process and select the right options for our use case (however, the same process can be configured with Qground Control as well using the Herelink GCS we have selected above):

  1. Connect the drone via a USB cable.
  2. Select an airframe:
Figure 12.9 – Selecting an airframe in AeroGCS

Figure 12.9 – Selecting an airframe in AeroGCS

Choose the following options:

  • Class: Quad
  • Type: X (considering the airframe is X-shaped)

Once you click Update, you’ll see the ESCs getting PWM signals.

Next, we will calibrate the sensors.

  1. First, we must calibrate the accelerometer. We learned about this previously. The SENSORS tab will help us with this:
    • Click Calibrate
    • Once you...
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