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Drone Development from Concept to Flight

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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

Assigning and changing flight modes in a GCS

In this section, we’ll take a deeper dive into step 3 from the previous section. Here, we’ll assign the three different flight modes to the switch that we configured previously. As we know, a GCS is the prime source of configuration for a drone, so we’ll use this knowledge to configure the flight mode that we want to put on this switch so that we can change it while it’s flying.

Flight mode configuration is also a key requirement that is of utmost importance before flying the drone and without which the drone could not be flown with the help of a remote controller. Here, we will see how we can configure flight mode in the GCS and how we can change the flight mode through the GCS.

Configuring the flight modes of the remote controller switch

When we open AeroGCS, we’ll see that the various flight modes are controlled through the radio (via a transmitter switch) or using commands from AeroGCS. Select...

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