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Designing Purpose-Built Drones for Ardupilot Pixhawk 2.1

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Product type Book
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786469168
Pages 272 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ty Audronis has been called a "technology-age renaissance man." Hes a professional drone pilot, post-production specialist in the entertainment and media industries, a highly experienced interactive game developer, and an accomplished digital artist. Hes worked for companies ranging from frog Design to California Academy of Sciences in roles where hes worn many hats. Tys been programming software and games since 1981 (when he was 8 years old) professionally. He majored in Computer Generated Animation and Visual Effects in college (where he won Best Animation for the entire CSU system a Rosebud Award). His music and sound design have been the soundtrack on several major productions; he has also served as a visual effects supervisor on feature films and was the supervising editor and animator for award-winning science visualizations. He has been building drones since the days when sensors and components had to be torn out of cell phones and game controllers. Ty is also a mentor, having taught many interns his skills, and speaks regularly at venues including Interdrone. He also serves on the advisory board for the Society of Aerial Cinematographers and for Genarts (now Boris) Sapphire.
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
1. Drones 101 2. Your First Drone - An Autonomous RC Car 3. A Drone for Hunters – Autonomous Duck Decoy 4. A Drone for Golfers 5. Introduction to UAVs 6. A Simple Multicopter Drone 7. The Holy Grail - A Fixed Wing Drone 8. The Principles of VTOL with Pixhawk 9. Programming Ardupilot

Designing your first VTOL

VTOLs have all the complexity of an airplane and a multicopter combined. So, you may want to start simple. Remember the Bixler we fitted with Pixhawk in the last chapter? This would be an excellent candidate to start with. Why? Because it's already a fully set up airplane. So, the first half is already done. Now we just have to figure out how to hybridize it.

We need to integrate the functionality of a multicopter without adding too much weight to the frame. So, it's not just a matter of gluing on a multicopter airframe. The multicopter needs to lift the weight of the airplane, and the airplane needs to keep the weight of the multicopter aloft during forward flight.

Not only that, but the energy requirements for our airplane are not very high (using just a 3S 1100 mAh LiPo battery). We could easily lift a drone and the airplane's weight with a 6S LiPo battery. But then we have all the extra weight of the battery, and all the extra weight of the motors and propellers...

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Authors (1)

Profile icon Ty Audronis
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Ty Audronis has been called a "technology-age renaissance man." Hes a professional drone pilot, post-production specialist in the entertainment and media industries, a highly experienced interactive game developer, and an accomplished digital artist. Hes worked for companies ranging from frog Design to California Academy of Sciences in roles where hes worn many hats. Tys been programming software and games since 1981 (when he was 8 years old) professionally. He majored in Computer Generated Animation and Visual Effects in college (where he won Best Animation for the entire CSU system a Rosebud Award). His music and sound design have been the soundtrack on several major productions; he has also served as a visual effects supervisor on feature films and was the supervising editor and animator for award-winning science visualizations. He has been building drones since the days when sensors and components had to be torn out of cell phones and game controllers. Ty is also a mentor, having taught many interns his skills, and speaks regularly at venues including Interdrone. He also serves on the advisory board for the Society of Aerial Cinematographers and for Genarts (now Boris) Sapphire.
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