Drone Flight Path Architecture

TL;DR

This paper extends a drone route planning architecture by adding a web-based interface and camera control features, enabling accessible route design and multimedia retrieval without VR hardware.

Contribution

It introduces a web component with 3D map API integration and camera task management, enhancing drone route planning and multimedia capabilities.

Findings

Web-based route planning accessible without VR hardware

Real-time camera control and multimedia retrieval implemented

Extended route configuration for diverse camera tasks

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 <latitude, longitude> 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