ArduPilot for Beginners: Programming and Customizing Your First Drone - Softcover

Myles, Isandro

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798296013187

Publisher: Independently published, 2025

Synopsis

🚁 ArduPilot for Beginners Programming and Customizing Your First Drone

Step-by-Step Guide to Building, Programming, and Customizing Drones with ArduPilot

Are you ready to build your first drone and take flight with ArduPilot? ArduPilot for Beginners is your practical guide to programming, customizing, and optimizing drones using ArduPilot, one of the most powerful open-source flight control systems.

Whether you're a beginner looking to fly your first drone or an enthusiast eager to modify and extend your UAV, this book offers hands-on guidance through every stage of drone development—from assembly and setup to advanced customization and flight control programming.

Inside, you’ll learn how to:

• Understand ArduPilot’s architecture and get started with configuring the software

• Assemble drone hardware using common components like flight controllers, motors, and ESCs

• Program your drone to perform autonomous flight missions with waypoints, loitering, and altitude control

• Customize flight behavior through ArduPilot’s flexible configuration tools and parameters

• Use Mission Planner and QGroundControl to manage your drone’s settings, monitor flight performance, and run tests

• Set up telemetry and ground control stations for real-time communication

• Tweak and extend ArduPilot's functionality for advanced applications like obstacle avoidance, path planning, and autonomous behaviors

By the end of the book, you’ll be confident in programming and customizing your own drone, ready to fly with the knowledge to take on more complex projects.

🔧 Perfect for hobbyists, aspiring drone developers, and makers looking to build custom drones
📦 Includes practical step-by-step tutorials, troubleshooting tips, and advanced customizations
⚙️ Works with a variety of ArduPilot-compatible hardware including Pixhawk, APM, and custom setups

Build, program, and customize your first drone with ArduPilot. Master the skies.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798296013187
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 145