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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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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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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

About the Reviewer

Ayan Pahwa is an embedded software engineer from New Delhi, India currently working at Mentor Graphics - a Siemens business with 5 plus years of experience in building and racing first person view multi-rotor drones. His professional work areas mainly focus on embedded firmware, device drivers, automotive IoT, and Linux system programming. He has co-founded SDIoT for flourishing drone and other new technologies within local communities. His drone aerial videos can be viewed on his YouTube channel.

 

 

Ersin Gonul is a senior design engineer at Turkish Aerospace Industries in Ankara, Turkey. Previously Gonul worked as R & D engineer for companies which they develop unmanned aerial vehicles. He graduated with honors from Selcuk University in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and also he holds a Master degree of Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Hacettepe University, Ankara. His expertise based on helicopter autopilots and unmanned systems. He is passionate about aviation, multicopters, VTOLs and their control systems. He also holds a Private Pilot License (PPL-H).

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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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