The Drones Demystified! program is under development! A first complete version will be available by September 2017. Please visit this page again.

Online Textbook

The Drones Demystified program is also accompanied with an Online Textbook with the hope that this corresponds to a comprehensive educational material. The contents of the online textbook are the following:

1. Modeling and Dynamics Formulation
   1. Frame Rotations and Representations
   2. Dynamics of a Multirotor Micro Aerial Vehicle
   3. Dynamics of a Fixed-Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
2. State Estimation
   1. Inertial Sensors
   2. The Kalman Filter
   3. Inertial Navigation Systems
3. Flight Controls
   1. PID Control
   2. LQR Control
   3. Linear Model Predictive Control
   4. An Autopilot Solution
4. Motion Planning
   1. Holonomic Vehicle Boundary Value Solver
   2. Dubins Airplane model Boundary Value Solver
   3. Collision-free Navigation
   4. Structural Inspection Path Planning
5. Simulation Tools
   1. Simulations with SimPy
   2. The RotorS Integrated Simulation Solution

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