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title: Drone manual

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# Drone manual

This manual covered just Blackhawk Drone only


Blackhawk Drone
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![](https://i.imgur.com/u3uqgrr.jpg =500x)


OptiTrack setup
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Go to the Optitrack PC station power-on it
![](https://i.imgur.com/ZZ2H4iO.png =500x)

Plug the switching and open program “Motive” in the PC
![](https://i.imgur.com/EyD5VHD.jpg =500x)

If you see Blackhawk's rigidbody in Motive, It's done!
![](https://i.imgur.com/Wrcjg5G.jpg =600x)

Drone setup
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Power the drone with a battery (lipo 3cell)
![](https://i.imgur.com/RRZPmxp.jpg =300x)

![](https://i.imgur.com/C4EqZG8.jpg =300x)

Turn on the telemetry and confirm that it is connecting with Blackhawk.
![](https://i.imgur.com/QWRBxjd.jpg =300x)

Make sure the safety switch is unlocked before take-off.

Mission planner(Optional)
--------
Use mission planner, In case you just want to visualize state of the drone

This telemetry(ID: VD02) is for Blackhawk, connect it to Optitrack PC
![](https://i.imgur.com/AbXQbx2.jpg =300x)

Open **mission planner** program
![](https://i.imgur.com/mnqIOxC.jpg =900x)


In the right-top corner, select **buadrate = 57600** and **click connect button**.
![](https://i.imgur.com/xjkPeh2.png =400x)


First flight
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Secure shell to drone with password **"odroid"** and make sure your wifi is connecting with **"Dronelab_5G"**
```bash
ssh odroid@192.168.1.87
```

In odroid, Bringup the drone with command
```bash
roslaunch mavros_bringup indoor_bringup2.launch
```

In client PC, run first flight command
```bash
roscd mavros_bringup
python src/mavros_bringup/mavController.py
```