duguyifei / dronesimulatormonitor

Use cesium.js, cesium for unreal, Microsoft Airsim, Nodejs to build a drone simulator game and use browser to monitor the drone.

README

Description

Project structure:

1. UE + Cesium + Miscroft AirSim => Flight Simulator
2. Python (Airsim API + PyGame) => Flight Controller
3. Node.js (Express + Socket.io) => Server
4. Cesium.js => Client

Installation

1. FlightSimulator.exe can be found in release.
2. Controller need pip install -r requirements.txt
3. Server and Client need Node app.js to run it.

Usage

1. If you have XBox controller, you can use it to control the drone without python script. From my side, it is not work very well, but maybe because I use PS4 controller to simulate XBox controller.
2. If you use XBox controller or use PS4 controller to simulate XBox controller, you can use python stick_controller_xbox.py.py to start the controller.
   1. Click X in PS4 or A in XBox to take off the drone.
   2. Click O in PS4 or B in XBox will make the drone land.
3. If you use keyboard directly, which will not have different velocity, use python controller.py. Btw, it use opencv im.show to see some image from drone camera.
4. Nodde app.js to start the server, and the client will be start in the port 3000.
5. When you start FlightSimulator.exe, it will load the tile map from google api, so you need wait 15 seconds to load the map.
6. In client, click follow view will follow the move or freely move the camera.
7. In client, click google map will show / hide the 3d tiles.

Keyboard or Gamepad

1. wasd or left stick move forward/back or left/right.
2. arrow key or right stick move up/down or rotate in yaw.
3. k in keyboard / x in PS4 / A in XBOX take off
4. l in keyboard / x in PS4 / A in XBOX land
5. esc / left spcial key in game pad quit game.

Other Information

1. stick_controller.py is used for PS4 controller, but I have no time to fix bug in it.
2. Google tile map api will be deprecated by me in the future, so if you want to use it in the future, you need rebuild the project.