Stand der Technik

Derzeit gibt es folgende Programme, welche es ermöglichen, existierende Benutzeroberflächen individuell anzupassen.

Micro Air Vehicle Ground Control Station / Operator Control Unit

OpenPilot

OpenPilot is a next-generation Open Source UAV (unpiloted aerial vehicle) autopilot. It is a highly capable platform for multi-rotor craft, helicopters, as well as fixed wing aircraft. It has been designed from the ground up by a community of passionate developers from around the globe, with its core design principals being quality, safety, and ease of use.  Simplicity does not come with any compromises either: with no hard-coded settings, a complete flight plan scripting language and other powerful features, OpenPilot is an extremely capable UAV autopilot platform.



http://www.openpilot.org/

AutoFlight





http://www.lbpclabs.com/autoflight

MissionPlanner

The Mission Planner, created by Michael Oborne, does a lot more than its name. Here are some of the features:

• Point-and-click waypoint entry, using Google Maps.
• Select mission commands from drop-down menus
• Download mission log files and analyze them
• Configure APM settings for your airframe
• Interface with a PC flight simulator to create a full hardware-in-the-loop UAV simulator.
• See the output from APM's serial terminal

Note: You can also do mission planning with the HappyKillmore GCS, which also has point-and-click waypoint entry and full scripting. It's really a matter of personal preference which you decide to use. The HK GCS instructions can be found here. The rest of this tutorial will focus on the APM Mission Planner.



http://code.google.com/p/ardupilot-mega/wiki/Mission

Happy Killmore

Brief Description: Open source ground control station which accepts NMEA, SiRF, uBlox, MediaTek (custom binary for DIYDrones.com), ArduPilot, ArduPilot Mega, ArduIMU binary, MAVlink, FY21AP II and UavDevBoard's MartixPilot as data input. Graphical user display including Google Maps/Earth interface and live video feed.



http://code.google.com/p/happykillmore-gcs/

QGroundControl
This is the home of the Open Source Micro Air Vehicle Ground Control Station / Operator Control Unit. QGroundControl is based on PIXHAWK's Groundstation and is now developed in a joint effort with the community.



http://qgroundcontrol.org/

Wahl fällt auf QGroundControl, da:

• Open-Source-Applikation

• große Entwickler-Community

• Programmiersprache C++, grafische Benutzeroberfläche mit der Qt-Klassenbibliothek

• einfache Erweiterung und Anpassung der Software