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Drone Development from Concept to Flight

Drone Development from Concept to Flight

By : Sumit Sharma
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Drone Development from Concept to Flight

Drone Development from Concept to Flight

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By: Sumit Sharma

Overview of this book

Unlock opportunities in the growing UAV market where drones are revolutionizing diverse sectors like agriculture, surveying, and the military. Using the vast experience of the author in drone domain, this book provides step-by-step guidance through the complete drone development life cycle, from concept to pilot stage, prototyping, and ultimately, a market-ready product, with domain-specific applications. Starting with an introduction to unmanned systems, principles of drone flight, and it's motion in 3D space, this book shows you how to design a propulsion system tailored to your drone’s needs. You’ll then get hands on with the entire drone assembly process, covering airframe, components, and wiring. Next, you’ll enhance drone connectivity and navigation with communication devices, such as RFD900, Herelink, and H-16 Pro GCS and hardware protocols like I2C, and UART. The book also guides you in using the open-source flight software Ardupilot and PX4, along with firmware architecture and PID tuning for advanced control. Additionally, you’ll go learn about AeroGCS, Mission Planner, and UGCS ground control stations, tips for maiden flight and log analysis for optimizing performance while building a custom survey drone with a 60-min endurance, 10km range, live video feed, and photography options. By the end of this book, you’ll be equipped with all you need to build and fly your own drones and UAVs.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Part 1: Fundamentals of Flight Engineering
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Part 2: System Conceptualization and Avionics Development
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Part 3: Configuration, Calibrations, Flying, and Log Analysis

Introduction to thrust, weight, lift, drag, and cruise

Any system that is planned to be in the air is characterized by the physical forces that act upon it in a 3D space, that is, the X-, Y-, and Z-axes. On Earth, the force that pulls an object down is the force of gravity, which has to be overcome first when seeking flight. The force of gravity acts the same towards all objects on Earth, pulling them at an acceleration of 9.8 m/sec2. When taking this into consideration, all objects have their weight associated with this process, which is acted upon by the force of gravity.

When taking Newton’s third law into account, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. The drone experiences a force that is equal and opposite to the force of gravity acting on the body. Let’s see the various terminologies associated with this and how we can cater to it.

Thrust

Thrust is the reaction force produced by the rotation of motors and propellers in the drone. This force acts...

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