Hardware Selection & Setup

This section contains information the components that might be used in a drone, and how they are set up.

• Flight Controllers (Autopilots) - Pixhawk and other FCs, firmware updates, other bootloaders
• Sensors — accelerometer, gyroscope, compass, airspeed, barometer, rangefinders, GNSS, RTK GNSS, Optical Flow, Tachometers, Factory calibration, thermal calibration.
• Actuators — Allocation, ESC, motors, servos
• Radio Control (RC) — Manual control using an RC system
• Joysticks — Manual control using a Joystick connected to QGroundControl
• Data Links — MAVLink, telemetry radios, satellite comms
• Power Systems — Battery estimation tuning, power modules, smart batteries
• Peripherals — camera, gimbal, grippers, parachute, RemoteID, traffic avoidance etc.
• I2C Peripherals
• CAN Peripherals
• DroneCAN Peripherals
• Cable Wiring
• Companion Computers — Setup, peripherals, computer vision, etc.
• Serial Port Configuration
• PX4 Ethernet Setup