Building smart drones with ESP8266 and Arduino build exciting drones by leveraging the capabilities of Arduino and ESP8266
Leverage the WiFi chip to build exciting Quadcopters About This Book Learn to create a fully functional Drone with Arduino and ESP8266 and their modified versions of hardware. Enhance your drone's functionalities by implementing smart features. A project-based guide that will get you developing...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Birmingham, [England] ; Mumbai, [India] :
Packt Publishing
2018.
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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/alma991009631590906719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Copyright and Credits
- Packt Upsell
- Contributors
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Things to Know Before You Build a Drone
- Drone
- Types of drones
- How can we differentiate between drones
- Drone frames
- Types of motors used for drones
- Several types of speed controllers
- Flight control board
- Radio transmitter and receiver
- Battery
- Propellers
- Battery adapters/chargers
- Connectors
- Some modules to make the drone smarter
- Power distribution board
- Summary
- Chapter 2: Assembling Your Drone
- Assembling the frame
- Connecting the motors
- Connecting the ESC
- Connecting the ArduPilot
- Connecting the radio
- Connecting the RC receiver and transmitter
- Connecting the battery
- Binding transmitter to the receiver
- Know the aerodynamics needed for flying a drone
- Hovering
- Rising or climbing or taking off
- Dropping or descent or falling
- Yaw
- Pitch and roll
- Saving your drone from crashing
- Check things before flying
- Check the security protocols for flying a drone outside
- Summary
- Chapter 3: Preparing Your Drone for Flying
- What is ESP8266?
- Connecting the ESP8266 to Arduino
- Downloading and installing APM Planner or Mission Planner
- Configuring the quadcopter
- Frame type selection
- Compass calibration
- Access calibration
- Radio calibration
- Flight mode calibration
- Failsafe calibration
- Summary
- Chapter 4: Building a Follow Me Drone
- What is a Follow Me drone?
- Making a Follow Me drone using ArduPilot
- Using a smartphone to enable the Follow Me feature of ArduPilot
- Using DroidPlanner 2
- Using the Tower application
- Building an Arduino-based Follow Me drone
- GPS Tracker using ESP8266
- Summary
- Chapter 5: Building a Mission Control Drone
- Surveying with a drone
- Using drones and delivery man.
- Some other tweaks with the Flight Plan screen
- Communicating with the drone via the ESP8266
- Summary
- Chapter 6: Building a Drone to Take Selfies and Record Videos
- Photography drones
- Requirements
- Assembling the photography drone
- Connecting the camera
- Choosing a gimbal
- Configuring the camera with the ArduPilot
- Connection
- Controlling the camera
- Flying and taking shots
- Tips for better quality videos
- Controlling the camera gimbal using ESP8266
- Summary
- Chapter 7: Building Prototype Drones - Gliding Drones
- What is a glider?
- Lift
- Drag
- Airfoil and its type
- Incident and decalage angle
- Three axis motion (roll, pitch, and yaw)
- Thrust
- Aspect ratio and glide ratio
- Glide or dive and descent, gliding angle
- Climb
- Center of pressure
- Pitching moment
- Load factor
- Angle of attack
- How a glider glides
- Let's build our own glider drone
- Summary
- Chapter 8: Building Prototype Drones - Racing Drones
- Racing drones
- Assembling the racing drone
- Connecting the FPV camera
- Avoiding obstacles using ESP8266
- Summary
- Chapter 9: Maintaining and Troubleshooting Your Drone
- Safety of the drone
- Be careful about the battery
- Storage of the drone
- Carrying a drone
- Before and after flight safety
- Respect the law and privacy
- Troubleshooting your drone
- My drone tries to flip or flip when I turn it on
- My motors spin but the drone does not fly or take off
- The drone moves in any direction
- When I pitch or roll, the drone yaws
- GPS lost communication
- Radio system failed
- Battery life is too short
- Diagnosing problems using logs
- Radio control calibration problem
- Summary
- Other Books You May Enjoy
- Index.
