You're reading from Drone Development from Concept to Flight Design, assemble, and discover the applications of unmanned aerial vehicles

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781837633005

Length 316 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Tools

Ardupilot

Concepts

Design

Author (1):

Sumit Sharma

View More author details

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Fundamentals of Flight Engineering

2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with UAV and Drone Engineering FREE CHAPTER

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

Why subscribe?

18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Selecting the navigation and communication systems

Navigation and communication systems are the most important systems in the drone. The communication system helps to command and control the drone over longer distances, and the navigation system helps the drone decide its north and guides the system to the waypoints in an autonomous mission.

Communication systems

A communication system basically consists of a radio modem and an antenna that is connected to the ground control station and the drone, which are connected to each other. This system helps to program the drone for autonomous missions and command the drone mid-flight to perform specific tasks. Let’s see the parameters at which a communication system exists (examples of a radio modem is RFD900 433Mhz.):

Range of drone: Range is a crucial factor that helps the engineer to decide and integrate the communication system. As the range requirement increases, the radio modem and antenna requirements also increase...