To recap, the first post of this series finished determining the Final GRC of our CONOPS, which was not reduced by the proposed ground mitigations and ended up being 2. Today, the post will cover the steps that will determine the air risk class associated to our CONOPS (roof inspection Read more…
The current drone regulation sets three different flight categories: Open. Low risk. Targets mainly ‘hobby’ activities. Specific. Medium risk. Supports professional activities. Certified. High risk. Similar to commercial aviation in terms of requirements. If you plan to fly in the specific category, you must present a risk assessment to the Read more…
The aim of this section is to learn the basics of how to configure and calibrate an autopilot for your drone. In our case, we used the Pixhawk Orange Cube. For the different steps of this process we followed the video on the following link: PixHawk/Mission Planner/ArduCopter Build for Beginners: Read more…
At this point, we are ready to assembly all components and finally have our drone ready to fly. The following video provides a great guide for the assembly: PixHawk/Mission Planner/ArduCopter Build for Beginners: Installation – YouTube. However, we will also describe the steps in this post together with some pictures Read more…
In this post we will talk about how we put together the frame of the drone. From our own experience, although the task looks pretty straightforward, we recommend you to be very careful during the assembly and pay close attention to the different steps, you will understand why in just Read more…
Welcome! We are students of the Applications and Technology for Unmanned Aircraft Systems and if you are interested in building a quadcopter and getting it ready for different missions, this is your site. During the next weeks, we will upload posts covering our progress, starting from the mounting of the Read more…