cloudstationteam / cloud_station_web

The web app of CloudStation - a project to create a cloud-based ground control station for Ardupilot drones.

Web-based Ground Control Station

The goal of this project is to develop a cloud-based ground control station for Ardupilot drones. The web app is designed to be easily scalable so users can control multiple drones at the same time.

The project is still under development and we would love to have more developers joining us!

For deployment instructions and documentation, please visit:

Docs

System architecture:

Authors

• Lyuyang Hu - PM, architecture design, back-end development
• Steven He - Front-end, back-end development
• Mina Bedwany - Front-end, back-end development
• Jace Mica - Front-end, back-end development
• Omkar Pathak - Infrastructure development
• Hunkyu Lee - Hardware design/development

Advisor

• Professor Peter Burke

Reference

[J78] Lyuyang Hu ; Omkar Pathak ; Zeyu He ; Hunkyu Lee ; Mina Bedwany ; Jace Mica ; Peter J. Burke “CloudStation”: A Cloud-based Ground Control Station for Drones ” IEEE Journal on Miniaturization for Air and Space Systems (2020)

License

GNU General Public License v3.0

cloud_station_web's Issues

No error message when no MAVLink received at the server

Expected Behavior
Should give an error message on the front end so the user can distinguish whether it's a server internal error or it's a hardware error.

Possible Solution
Return different messages for establishing the connection (mavlink_connect) and receiving the heartbeat.

Using AWS RDS - 502 Gateway Error

Hi, I'd like to use this project, but is it possible to use AWS RDS instead of SQLite as the database?

I followed all the steps in the AWS RDS deployment instructions given, but when I visit the CloudStation instance URL, after reloading the server with:
bash ~/cloud_station_deployment/reload_server.sh

I have a 502 Gateway error. Since the documentation said RDS was experimental, I don't know if this issue has been solved before.

I'm using Ubuntu 18.04 as the instance EC2 server, and set up the CloudStation instance with the v2.0 release.

Telemetry_log.timestamp raise time zone support warning

Expected Behavior
* Should not give warning
Detailed Description

• When new orientation data is received and logged into the db, the following RuntimeWarning is raised:

DateTimeField Telemetry_log.timestamp received a naive datetime (2019-11-19 08:26:09.096858) while time zone support is active.

• This issue does not raise a problem with the current testing environment, but we will want to add support for different time zones in the future.

Error in map.js 'setData' function undefined

Wishlist

Wishlist:

Video on YT about networking
Stylize
To display:
Connected,disconnected/link status (last message, link speed, etc, no heartbeat received for > 5 seconds)

Stretch Wishlist:
Track line
Finish up filling out object properties, mirror in Django, browser
Log
Swarms
Waypoints
Icon changes based on vehicle
Mode dropdown changes based on vehicle
Make like QGC

use str instead of int for droneid

This will provide a way to support more complex connect_address (ex: "com", "udp:194.xxxxxxx:1234", etc) Currently, it only supports integers and there are many type casts and parseInt() which makes it a bad design.

This is related to db, frontend and mav_utils. The interface will need to be changed.

Unable to add telemetry_log entry to admin site manually

Decimal error issued when trying to add a telemetry_log entry to admin site

Telemetry data text flickers when multiple drones are connected

When multiple drones are connected, the telemetry data values are constantly flickering.