www.ugcs.com

Universal ground control software

for

Wildlife conservation UAV challenge 2014

Alexey Yankelevich

R&D director, SPH Engineering

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U|g|CS provides basic functionality for a drone operation

Missionplanner

Multiple drone types

Mission control

Payload data

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Mission planner

3D Map:• SRTM elevation data source;• WMS, tile data sources;• KMZ 3D models;• custom dynamic targets (e.g. rangers or rhinos)

Route planning tools:• waypoints;• area coverage;• perimeter inspection;• circular inspection;• custom algorithms;• obstacle avoidance.

Operations:• Loiter/Hover;• POI;• Control camera;

Mission pre-flight checks:• drone capabilities;• limitation checks.

Tools:• distance and square measurement• line of sight measurement• elevation profile

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Multiple drone types

Support of different flight controllers and protocols• MAVLink (Arducopter, Arduplane, ArDrone);• Microdrones;• Mikrokopter;• Custom vehicle specific modules – we have open source VSM SDK (all documentation is available online)

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Telemetry and video

Telemetry:• online reporting;• recording;• playback;• archive.

Video:• online player for RTP and raw formats;• recording (coming soon); • stabilization.

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Architecture

Universal control server (UCS)

HCI 1 HCI N…

Protobuf JSON

VSM 1 VSM M…

UgCS protocol

TCP HTTP

TCP

COM | TCP | UDP

Auth. | Messaging | Storage | Geo Services

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Platforms

• Windows• Ubuntu• MacOS (coming March 2014)• Android (coming May 2014)• iOS (coming May 2014)

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Customization

Examples:• Develop your own VSMs using our open source VSM SDK• Develop your own client using UCS• Develop your own route planning algorithms

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Questions

Thank You!

Alexey YankelevichAYankelevich@ugcs.com

Questions