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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

The Flight Plan Screen


The following image shows the Flight Plan Screen (without fixed-wing tuning mission loaded):

The main window shows a satellite map of the mission area. The yellow lines represent the desired path of the vehicle, while the white circles represent the area for the turning arc (turning radius). The green markers represent the actual waypoint targets for the mission.

The bottom window is a chart representing all of the parameters for the mission. In this window, you can add events (such as Do Jump, which sends the vehicle back to a specific waypoint). If your camera is attached to Pixhawk, you can tell the camera to take an image/start recording. Flight modes can be set to change as well (such as "Land"). Any command Pixhawk is capable of executing can be triggered using this interface.

The window on the far right allows you to save missions for later use (to your computer), load previous missions, change the type of satellite map. Different maps can prove to be more/less...

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