Introduction

Welcome to the introduction. The purpose of this page is to clarify the scope of this documentation, as well as to serve as a starting point to start working with EOLab Drones.

This documentation is designed for three types of readers/users, and makes a strong assumption that everyone knows the basics of drones:

• Operators/Pilots: This user is primarily interested in performing manually operated missions, so the Common Operational Manual section covers all the information necessary for an operator/pilot to use our self-built drones.
• Developers (application layer): This user is interested in performing assisted or autonomous missions with our drones, so the Developers section provides indispensable resources to develop autonomous applications.
• Maintainers: User in charge of maintaining the hardware and software infrastructure for the previous users as well as the documentation.

What if you are not yet familiar with the basics of drones? in that case you can visit the external link Basic concepts - PX4 Docs. For now there are no intentions to include educational material to start from zero on drones as this only increases the overhead of the documentation.

The Cores

The following section is purely informative, and is intended to point out the projects that are at the core of our drones. Depending on the type of reader/user you are, you should be familiar with them.

Hardware core (for Operator/Pilots, Developers and Maintainers): Pixhawk is defined as Open (Hardware) Standard: "Pixhawk open standards provides readily available hardware specifications and guidelines for drone systems development".

Software core: PX4 "Open Source Autopilot". Why PX4 ? TBA

Application core: ROS.... TBA