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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

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 Initial Setup screen

The following screenshot shows the initial setup screen's Install Firmware tab. This screen allows you to repurpose a Pixhawk module for other applications (such as Rover):

Wizard

The following screenshot shows the interface that pops up when clicking on the Wizard tab. This is a step-by-step configuration wizard to help get the basic setup of your Pixhawk in place:

Mandatory hardware

This section allows you to calibrate/setup all of the peripherals that are required to make Pixhawk drive your vehicle properly. Let's take a look at each:

Accel Calibration: This allows to calibrate the accelerometers. You'll want to do this if you are getting a Bad AHRS error in the Flight Data screen. Simply enter this menu and click on Calibrate Accelerometer to open the calibration wizard. The Calibrate Level button lets you calibrate the correct level position of Pixhawk. This is essential for the aircraft, otherwise they may pitch/roll when Pixhawk believes it is flying level. In...

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Authors (1)

Ty Audronis

Ty Audronis has been called a "technology-age renaissance man." Hes a professional drone pilot, post-production specialist in the entertainment and media industries, a highly experienced interactive game developer, and an accomplished digital artist. Hes worked for companies ranging from frog Design to California Academy of Sciences in roles where hes worn many hats. Tys been programming software and games since 1981 (when he was 8 years old) professionally. He majored in Computer Generated Animation and Visual Effects in college (where he won Best Animation for the entire CSU system a Rosebud Award). His music and sound design have been the soundtrack on several major productions; he has also served as a visual effects supervisor on feature films and was the supervising editor and animator for award-winning science visualizations. He has been building drones since the days when sensors and components had to be torn out of cell phones and game controllers. Ty is also a mentor, having taught many interns his skills, and speaks regularly at venues including Interdrone. He also serves on the advisory board for the Society of Aerial Cinematographers and for Genarts (now Boris) Sapphire.

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