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UAV Flight Engineer

Your destination: UAV Flight Engineer

From first motor spin to autonomous BVLOS missions — the full flight stack.

3 courses~60h8 weeks72 lessons
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About this path

Learn to take a multirotor from a box of parts to autonomous, mission-capable flight. You'll start on the bench — wiring, flashing, and tuning a flight controller until it holds a stable hover — then move up the stack to state estimation, offboard control, and full autonomous missions with PX4 and ROS 2. By the end you can own a UAV program end-to-end: hardware bring-up, firmware, autonomy, and the ground-to-air software around it.

Skills you'll gain
PX4ROS 2C++PythonMAVLinkSensor FusionArdupilot

What you'll be able to do

  • Bring up a flight controller from bare hardware and tune a stable multirotor
  • Fuse IMU and GPS data into a reliable, drift-resistant state estimate
  • Fly fully autonomous missions using PX4 offboard control from ROS 2
  • Take a UAV prototype from simulation through to a real, logged flight test
Before you start

Comfortable with Python and basic Linux commands. "Robotics 101" is a helpful warm-up but not required.

The path3 courses, in order
  1. Flight Controller Basics for Drone Engineers: UAV1Wire up, flash, and tune a flight controller until it holds a clean hover.
    PlannedBeginner · ~14h · 18 lessons
    Planned
  2. Autonomous Flight for UAV Engineers with PX4 and ROS2: UAV2Command autonomous missions with PX4 offboard control from ROS 2.
    PlannedIntermediate · ~20h · 24 lessons
    Planned
  3. Research to Flight for UAV R&D Engineers and Start-Ups: UAV3Take a research paper to a flying, production-track VTOL prototype.
    PlannedAdvanced · ~40h · 30 lessons
    Planned
  4. UAV Flight Engineer · certificateCertified UAV Flight Engineer — completed the full PX4 / ROS 2 flight-stack path.