Drone Development Guide: Step-by-step drone development

🚁 Drone Development from Concept to Flight is your ultimate guide to building and flying drones. This book takes you through the complete drone development life cycle, from initial concept to a market-ready product. You'll learn about multicopter physics, including roll, pitch, and yaw, and how to design a propulsion system tailored to your drone’s needs.

🔧 Get hands-on with the entire drone assembly process, covering airframe, components, and wiring. Enhance your drone's connectivity and navigation with communication devices like RFD900 and Herelink, and hardware protocols such as I2C and UART. The book also guides you in using open-source flight software like Ardupilot and PX4, along with firmware architecture and PID tuning for advanced control.

📊 Additionally, you'll explore ground control stations like AeroGCS, Mission Planner, and UGCS, and get tips for maiden flight and log analysis. By the end, you'll have built a custom survey drone with a 60-min endurance, 10km range, live video feed, and photography options.

🎯 Perfect for beginner-level drone engineers, robotics engineers, and hobbyists, this book equips you with all you need to build and fly your own drones and UAVs.