The Duckiedrone Operation Manual

Warning

🚧 This manual describes the ente software version of the latest Duckiedrone build, and is currently work in progress. 🚧

The stable release to date is the daffy Duckiedrone operation manual.

Welcome to the Duckiedrone (DD24-B) operation manual. The Duckiedrone is a do-it-yourself (DIY) Raspberry Pi-based autonomous quadcopter.

The DD24-B is the third Duckietown drone hardware iteration. For more information about its predecessors, check out the DD18 and DD21 Duckiedrone manuals.

This manual provides instructions on how to assemble, test, initialize, calibrate, operate, and programme a Duckiedrone, and what to teach and learn with it.

Note

Do not have one yet? Get a Duckiedrone.

Preliminaries

• Safety
• Prerequisites
  • Initial setup
  • Additional Materials
  • Soldering basics
  • How to Use Multimeters
• What’s in the box (DD24)
• Software Initialization

Hardware build DD24-B

• Duckiedrone DD24-B assembly instructions

Drone setup and configuration

• First boot
• First connection
• Initializing the ESCs
• Setting up the Flight Controller
  • Initializing the Flight Controller
  • Flight Controller Configuration
• Sensor Calibration
• Configure the motor order and spinning direction
• Troubleshooting

Drone handling

• Preparing the software stack
• Flying your Duckiedrone
• Flight Controller PID Tuning
• Common issues
• Network configuration

Learning Experiences

• Introduction to Learning Experiences
• Supported Learning Experiences

Software Architecture

• ROS (Robot Operating System)
• Software Architecture
• Reference frames