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# Research Drones (Real Drones) Manual
### Important Note:
Due to safety concerns, before flying the research drone or real drone, you need to get permission to fly from the VISTEC drone research team.

### System Requirement
* Real Drones with Pixhawk or PX4 flight controller system
* Remote Control
* A laptop/notebook installed Mission Planner program
* A laptop/notebook installed Robot Operationg System (ROS) and MAVROS (ROS package for interface with the drone)

### Drone hardward setup
In this manual, we will not deeply describe about the hardward assambly and basic setting and calculation. If you want to build up your own hardware system, you can explore further here [Getting start with Pixhawk](https://ardupilot.org/copter/docs/introduction.html#getting-started) and [Getting start with PX4](https://docs.px4.io/v1.9.0/en/getting_started/).

Here, we will decribe only our drone platforms as picture below: 
![](https://i.imgur.com/x3h7bo5.jpg)![](https://i.imgur.com/PNSeGYq.jpg)![](https://i.imgur.com/Tkha1Xq.jpg)



### Flying drone outdoor using GPS as a positioning system
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### Flying drone indoor using Motion Capture (OptiTrack) as a positioning system
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### Flying drone indoor/outdoor using Visual Odometry (RealSense Tracking Camera - T265) as a positioning system
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