Drone Flight Path Architecture

PubDate: Aug 2023

Teams: Bogotá, Colombia

Writers: Andres Forero Osorio, Carlos Andrés Torres Echeverría

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Abstract

This project was built from a pre-existing architecture that facilitates the planning and automatic execution of drone routes in a known space through a 3D virtual reality environment. Our work consisted in extending this architecture by integrating a new web component, making use of a 3D map API, to facilitate to people who do not have access to virtual reality hardware, the possibility of planning flight routes that have as parameters the with respect to the globe and also a component in meters that represents the height at which the drone rises in a certain point. Additionally, the configuration possibilities of a route were extended in order to take advantage of one of the components that gives more value and potential to unmanned aircrafts: the use of the camera in multiple contexts and scenarios. The extension of this solution allows the user to assign different camera tasks along the route, see in real time what the camera is capturing and, after the flight, retrieve the multimedia content that was created