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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Working with GCS software on logs and their graphs

Flight logs are generated during the flight and stored in the internal storage and memory cards of the drone. In the following section, we will explore how to upload logs to a specific tool and access them using the QGC software and Flight Review.

Steps to download logs from the flight controller using QGC as the GCS

The latest build of QGC can be downloaded and installed from their official website. It’s open source GCS software useful for the setting up and configuration of drones for manual and mission flights. The QGC software is compatible with Linux, Windows, and Mac on a PC and is also compatible with iOS and Android devices. It supports flight stacks such as ArduPilot, PX4, or any other stack that communicates through MAVLink. The detailed steps to download and read the logs are as follows: