December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
272 pages
6h 45m
English
Content preview from Designing Purpose-Built Drones for Ardupilot Pixhawk 2.1
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Planner
The following screenshot shows the options for the Planner tab. This is the area where we configure the Mission Planner software itself:
There are many options for setting up Mission Planner on your ground control station. Let's take a look at each one of them:
- Video Device: As we saw in the Multicopter chapter, this is where you would specify a video capture device (hooked up to a video receiver) to display the video taken onboard the drone. Using the Start and Stop buttons starts and stops the video from being displayed behind the HUD on the Flight Data screen (in place of an artificial horizon).
- Video Format: This specifies the ...