Mission Planning

[mojodna]

WebODM should facilitate the planning of missions.

Input:

• area(s) to cover (polygon) - if multiple areas, treat as multiple missions?
• angle(s) to take photos
• altitude
• hazards (is this a thing handled by mission planning software?)
• camera specs
• desired overlap
• ...

Output:

• 3D linestring representing flight path
• [flight planning output]
• ...

[dakotabenjamin]

We are only a small team of developers, this project isn't our main work. So, updates come when we can or when the community contributes, which we highly encourage.

[kikislater]

.plan file format for px4 stack newly documented here : https://dev.qgroundcontrol.com/en/file_formats/plan.html https://github.com/mavlink/qgroundcontrol/issues/5234

[TrurlMcByte]

Have tested com.droneharmony.planner (beta) from droneharmony.com. Very useful tool with automatic generation fly plan from rectangle(s) with multiple parameters and modes (have tested few of them). Generated plan just loaded into drone (was used DJI Mavic Pro) and working in full autonomous mode with possibility to break and with monitoring plan progress (including image and map). App have some minor problems (for example can't recover progress after connection loss, also heavy phone battery usage), but it's beta...

Here orthophoto layer on Google Earth Pro + telemetry kml

[kikislater]

Usage of mavlink in Dji drones : https://github.com/diux-dev/rosettadrone

[smathermather]

That's awesome, @kikislater. That's a bit of a game changer.

[kikislater]

And it works ! Tested on Mavic pro

[smathermather]

That's exciting. Any caveats or issues?

[pierotofy]

Thought I'd chime on this after 5 years.. :)

It's obvious that a mission planner is something we'd love to have in the OpenDroneMap ecosystem, as the number of comments in this and other threads show.

It's also a tremendous effort to start its development and keep up with the race of SDKs, hardware models and platforms. It would also have to perform better than existing tools such as QGroundControl which already focus on that exclusively and have a fair number of developers working on it.

This needs resources (read: lots of developer time) to get implemented. Probably not even by a single person.

UAV4GEO can help a bit with both developer time and financial resources; but I think it would need more stakeholders involved and someone with modern mobile app development experience on both iOS and Android with various drone SDKs.

[pierotofy]

Closing due to lack of resources / interest. Perhaps this could get revisited in the future.

[gromain]

@pierotofy I feel like the energy should probably more dedicated on how to integrate with QGroundControl for example. I'm planning on testing the RosettaDrone setup with a Mavic 2 Pro and a Phantom 4 Pro. Maybe a page in the documentation would do the trick to help redirect users to proper resources.

I agree with closing, it's not in the core mission of WebODM/ODM from my POV.