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

Understanding and conceptualizing the system

Understanding and conceptualizing helps us to build every kind of drone for its dedicated application and purpose. As we saw in Chapter 1 the major applications for which a drone can be used, we now see how drones can be conceptualized and developed.

A drone is basically a platform that can fly into the air with a certain amount of payload capacity, which we have already studied with maximum take-off weight (MTOW). Thus, a drone platform can be helpful in transforming a drone for different applications by applying the permissible payload to it and optimizing its weight, endurance, size, and power.

When we are conceptualizing a system, we need to think about and decide on the following things:

  • The application: The purpose of this is to know the application and purpose for which the drone is built, for example, an urban mapping by a LiDAR payload, a land survey using an RGB camera, crop spraying/seeding in agriculture, day and...
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