Training is recommended for users of UgCS software and Integrated Systems who already have basic knowledge of UgCS.
- Training can be provided at the SPH Engineering office or using video conferencing software.
- Duration: up to 6 hours.
- The price is for a group of up to 4 students.
Prerequisites:
Completed UgCS Basics training or the same knowledge and experience.
Before this training, the trainee has to perform automated test flight using UgCS - Area Scan or Photogrammetry routes. Remote review of the flight telemetry or photogrammetry results will be performed at the beginning of the session. If a trainee can't demonstrate results of completed missions, the trainer will cancel the training session, and it has to be rescheduled.
Training outline:
- Planning AreaScan missions using DSM (elevation data)
- Installing/configuring SkyHub and altimeter on the DJI drone
- Working with Custom Payload Monitor to control TTF/Grasshopper flight modes
- Connection to the DJI drone using UgCS for the DJI app
- Simulation of AreaScan mission using the M600Pro drone in flight simulation mode without an altimeter
- Simulation of AreaScan mission using the TTF mode (how to enable simulation, how to start TTF mode, interrupt the mode)
- Fail-safe actions in TTF mode
- Planning and simulation of AreaScan/TTF mission where AreaScan is far from the take-off position
- Simulation of a flight with a battery change
- Safety considerations in TTF mode – what ~1s delay of TTF algorithm means in terms of speed and altitude
- Practical exercises (if training is provided online - analyzing of customer's flights and remote support)
- AreaScan mission flight without TTF
- AreaScan mission using TTF
- Changing batteries in the middle of the route and resuming the mission
- Attempt to start TTF mode when the drone is above max altitude
- Attempt to start TTF mode when the drone is below min altitude
- Pausing/resuming TTF mode
- Grasshopper missions
Testimonials
★★★★★DRONE SPRAYER SHINES IN HIGH-VALUE HORT CROPS
Bouwman sets the speed at 15 m.p.h., slow enough to ensure he’s getting uniform coverage. He thinks that speed does a better job than the higher speed used by a full-size helicopter. Altitude is generally 10 to 12 feet. Although the sales information claims a 30-foot wide swath, his testing with water sensitive paper says 24 feet is more realistic. In perfect conditions he might bump that to 26 feet.
“Quality of the spray job is a bigger benefit than we expected. When we’re spraying fungicide on corn, for instance, we see droplets all the way down to the root ball.”
Bear Bouwman
Southern Minnesota
