Drone Cloud Platform | Drone As A Service | DaaS

Drone Cloud Platfrom is a drone ground control system (GCS) build by Vue.js and it provide user to control there ardupilot-based drone through 4G network.

Service Introduction

We propose an eco-system of the UAV, the system including frontend service, backend API server, multi drone simulation environment, topic-subscribe broker. The pilot commanding the drone by controlling the fronend interface, the command will first forward to the backend by using Websocket, then the AMQP client in the backend server will send the command to the AMQP broker, after recieved the payload, it would follow the routing rules and forward the command to the target drone.

Views/Components Design

Global State Management (Vuex)

Experiment Captures

Main control interface

Drone that flight by platform service

SITL infrastructure to simulate multi-drones

Multi drones observation

Drone's orbit history records

Object detection (Tensorflow.js)

Project Setup

1. Prerequisite

1. Node.js LTS runtime (Install by NVM or official Website)
2. Backend API server (Please setup drone-api-server first!!)

2. Install Dependencies

npm install

3. Config Environment Variables

Copy env example file and rename to .env.local

cp .env.local.example .env.local

Fill in credentials

VUE_APP_MAPBOX_TOKEN=your mapbox token
VUE_APP_BACKEND_SERVICE_PROTOCOL=http
VUE_APP_BACKEND_SERVICE_SERVICE_HOST=localhost
VUE_APP_BACKEND_SERVICE_SERVICE_PORT=3030

Generate mapbox token(free, no need credit card) in mapbox offical website

4. Run project (Development mode)

npm run serve

Frontend service will now run on http://localhost:8080

5. Build project (Production mode)

npm run build

6. Deployment

Initial firebase configs

firebase init

Deploy to firebase hosting

firebase deploy --only hosting

How to start to use the drone service?

1. Download the App

Download the latest apk

2. Open the App to get the Drone ID

3. Sign up the service account

• Drone Cloud Platform Sign up
• Enter your Drone ID that shows on your App when register account