Autonomous Drone using Pixhawk Flight Controller 

Components used:

• DJI Flame wheel 450 frame

• 1300 kv DJI BLDC motors

• Pixhawk flight controller stack

• GPS

• Telemetry Module

• 2800mah Li-Po battery

• laptop with Ardupilot software 

• 10" Props

• 30A ESCs

• RC controller (to test the drone)

Initially, the Drone is Assembled, then the BLDC motors are integrated to the frame and all the terminals of the power distribution board , ESC and BLDC motors are soldered properly to maintain the power flow.

Then the Pixhawk flight controller is integrated to the frame and also the GPS, power source, switch, buzzer and ESC are connected to the flight controller.

After that, the propellers are tightened to the BLDC motor, the battery is connected and connected the flight controller to the Ardupilot software based laptop to calibrate the drone and its GPS and using a RC controller, tested out if the drone is properly calibrated and is flying.

Now, the drone is again paired using a telemetry module this time. After making sure that the drone is getting all the signals properly and is connected to at least 5 satellites signal for efficient communication, we set up a path in the software, where we have given it two point in x and y axis and set the altitude ranging from 3m to 5m and started the flight . Thus, completing the mission of autonomous flight.