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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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Author (1):
Ty Audronis Ty Audronis
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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

Using tank locomotion


Tank style locomotion is where there are no steerable wheels. Rather, wheels on one side of a vehicle move forward, while the wheels on the other side either stay stationary, or reverse (as illustrated in the following diagram). This is also called skid-steering:

This kind of locomotion is great because vehicles can literally turn on a dime (in place). However, the drawback is that it can be jerky when turning while going forward. But as there's no sensitive equipment (just golf clubs), we don't really care if there's jostling of the clubs during turns. All we really want is to make this as inexpensive and simple as possible. You may notice that the front wheel is fixed (doesn't pivot as a caster would). This is of no concern to us as when steering occurs, the front wheel doesn't have a lot of weight on it (the center of gravity is right on top of the main wheels' axle). Therefore, the friction is minimal. If it turns out to be a problem, we can always replace the front...

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