Drone Development from Concept to Flight

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Introduction to Drone Firmware and Flight Stacks

In previous chapters, we took a look at major hardware and peripheral devices, as well as various sensors that are helpful for the control, command, guidance, and navigation of a drone. These are the mechanical as well as electronic parts that are interfaced and assembled to form the system hardware that we call a drone. But you will know that hardware is nothing without a soul, and the soul of the drone is the drone firmware. To control or command the drone as a whole, we require software called Ground Control Station (GCS) software, which we will study briefly in the next chapter.

In this chapter, we will go through the high-level architecture of the firmware, what it requires, what it includes, ...