Designing purpose-built drones for Ardupilot Pixhawk 2.1 build drones with Ardupilot
Design and build land, air, and sea drones using Ardupilot with Pixhawk 2.1 About This Book Explore the best practices used by the top industry professionals that will not only help you build drones in time, but also build effective solutions to cater to. Navigate through the complexities of Ardupil...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Birmingham, UK :
Packt Publishing
2017.
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| Edición: | 1st edition |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009630701206719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewer
- www.PacktPub.com
- Customer Feedback
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Drones 101
- Introduction to drones
- Purposes for drones
- Types of drones
- USV drones
- Rovers
- Submersibles
- UAV drones
- Multirotors
- Fixed-wing drones - airplanes
- Hybrid drones - VTOL
- Helicopter drones
- Dirigible drones - Blimps
- Ardupilot 101 - A quick overview of Pixhawk 2.1
- Safety and best practices
- Summary
- Chapter 2: Your First Drone - An Autonomous RC Car
- Our rover
- Kitbashing
- Rustler VXL
- Planning and limitations
- Identifying the components
- Planning the placement of Pixhawk
- 3D modeling, printing, and silicone molding
- Measure five times, print once
- Model it in 3D
- Print it in 3D
- Preparing for molding
- Pouring the mould
- Demolding and curing
- Hooking up your Pixhawk
- Global Positioning System (GPS)
- Radio telemetry
- RC receiver
- Connecting the brain to the body
- Programming the Pixhawk for our (basic) rover
- The wizard
- More calibration...
- Testing and driving
- Setting waypoints
- Summary
- Chapter 3: A Drone for Hunters - Autonomous Duck Decoy
- Spawning a marketable deal
- Outlining the scope before you design
- Choosing the kitbash boat
- Designing the duck body for 3D printing
- The basics of 3D modeling
- Modeling with subdivs
- Box modeling 101
- Knifing polygons
- Extruding and shifting
- Making the duck hollow
- Freezing curves into polygons - subdividing
- Booleans
- Printing large 3D models
- Testing for water-tightness
- Installing the propulsion system
- Steering and electronics
- Hooking everything up!
- Summary
- Chapter 4: A Drone for Golfers
- The design
- Using tank locomotion
- Adapting Pixhawk for skid-steering.
- Using Bluetooth to control Pixhawk with a phone
- Using LIDAR to avoid obstacles
- LIDAR 101
- Making LIDAR work
- Mounting the module
- Configuring LIDAR with Mission Planner
- Summary
- Chapter 5: Introduction to UAVs
- Safety concerns
- Propellers - flying cuisinarts
- Designing for air versus ground
- Weight
- Power/lift
- Fuel - battery
- Learning some physics
- Designing a multicopter airframe
- Symmetry
- Even numbers
- Blade clearance
- Designing a fixed wing - airplane
- Wing design
- Summary
- Chapter 6: A Simple Multicopter Drone
- What is 360 VR video, and why make a drone for it?
- Spec-ing out the parts
- Starting with the payload
- Choosing the gimbal
- Landing gear
- A first-person view - FPV system
- The actual aerial platform - drone
- Batteries
- Running the numbers
- Assembling the drone
- Too many freakin' wires!
- GPS on a stick
- Rails are awesome
- Anything loose? Tuck it away and tie it down
- Hooking up the ESCs to Pixhawk
- Configuring Pixhawk and Mission Planner
- The initial configuration of Pixhawk
- Configuring the ground station
- Using joysticks to control a drone
- Setting up video
- Final configuration before test flights
- Summary
- Chapter 7: The Holy Grail - A Fixed Wing Drone
- Why this particular airplane kit?
- The assembly
- Placing the Pixhawk
- Placing the components
- Tuning a fixed wing aircraft with mission planner
- Configuring the pitot tube
- Setting up the LIDAR range finder
- Setting up for tuning
- Fixed wing flight modes
- Setting flight modes
- Autotune level
- The tuning process
- Your maiden flight
- AUTOTUNE flight
- Taking off and getting ready to tune
- Entering AUTOTUNE
- How to fly in AUTOTUNE
- Testing AUTOTUNE
- Autopilot tune
- Setting up the mission
- Flying the tuning mission
- Auto-landing tuning
- TECS tuning.
- Testing and fine tuning TECS
- Auto-landing setup and parameters
- The testing
- Summary
- Chapter 8: The Principles of VTOL with Pixhawk
- The types of VTOL
- The hybrid VTOL
- Thrust vectored VTOL
- Designing your first VTOL
- The challenge
- The simple gets more complex
- The (re-imagined) airframe
- Creating our shopping list
- The final plan
- Implementing Pixhawk
- Test and tune before making the leap
- Setting up the firmware
- Quadplane flight modes
- Transitioning from VTOL to airplane
- Recommended VTOL RTL procedure
- Notes before attempting any transitions
- Summary
- Chapter 9: Programming Ardupilot
- The Flight Data interface
- The Flight Plan Screen
- The Initial Setup screen
- Wizard
- Mandatory hardware
- Optional hardware
- Config/Tuning screen
- Planner
- Flight Modes
- Basic Tuning
- Standard Params
- Advanced Params
- Full Parameter List
- Full Parameter Tree
- The Simulation Screen
- Mission Planner terminal
- Summary
- Index.
