Configuration
This section provides steps on how to setup your flight controller to be ready for flight. The setup of the on board computer (OBC) is covered in a separate tutorial.
As this drone uses PX4 firmware for flight control, all the needed configurations are already covered in the PX4 User guide. Therefore, most of the steps here will refer to the original PX4 guide.
Preliminaries
This section contains essential configuration topics, including how to install firmware onto the flight controller hardware, selecting an airframe, and configure the core sensors that PX4 needs to be present on every vehicle (compass, GPS, gyro etc.)
Follow the below links in order to setup ZaDrone.
- Installing autopilot firmware
- Choosing Airframe. Here we choose the closest airframe hwich is DJI Flamewheel 330
- Sensor calibration
- Radio Setup
- Flight modes. It is recommended to set a 3-position switch to (Manual, Altitude, Position) modes.
- ESC calibration
- Range finder: LiDAR Lite v3. If you use LiDAR lite v3, you can use I2C connection. For that, you need to prepare I2C cable as follows.
**TO BE DONE: I2C cable for LIDAR LITE v3**