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

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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

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Introduction to GCS hardware and software

A GCS is a ground-based integrated set of hardware and software that’s used to configure the drone and monitor system health, headings, and other parameters by the drone operator. The same GCS is also used to program autonomous missions for the drone and monitor real-time parameters such as height, speed, and direction. It also does a pre-flight check to calibrate its sensors before flight.

The following are the components of a GCS:

GCS hardware
GCS software

Let’s take a closer look at each.

GCS hardware

GCS hardware is a set of all hardware that’s required to run the GCS software and communicate with the drone – that is, the ground data terminal. This GCS hardware is a combination of a laptop/tablet with a human-machine interface, telemetry antennas, interfaces, and video capture cards. GCS hardware is a compatible platform under which all the required software that’s used for...