Mission as a Service – Implementation of a Cloud-Based Uas

Abstract

In our days, unmanned aerial vehicles – drones – and cloud computing systems are widely known branches of technology. The Mission as a Service is not just an utopian vision, the current technology enables us to control swarms of UAVs through the internet. Our research contains the development of a cloud-controlled prototype unmanned aircraft system, together with the necessary functional and security testing, and the publication of the observed results.
Applied technologies include amongst others: OpenStack cloud architecture, MapBox map display framework, MAVLink communication protocol, MAV Downlink mobile app and the APM autopilot. The present publication describes the results achieved so far, the system in its current form is ready for the initial flight tests.