Introduction

Originally, both the planning and output of the control files with uavRmp was intended for terrain/surfaces with high relief energy and supported direct upload to the 3DR Solo Drone and the CSV based interface of the Litchi software for DJI drones, respectively.

PixHawk based UAVs

The PixHawk based UAVs can be flown directly from QGroundcontrol.

Note: If a higher resolved resolution terrain is to be taken into account for planning, uavRmp must be used beforehand to perform this terrain analysis for flight planning. The control file must then be reloaded into QGroundcontrol as a waypoint file and can thean be used as a flight control file.

Open the control file via QGroundcontrol or one of its derivates and proceed like usual.

3DR Solo: solo_upload("export_1001_solo.waypoints")

DJI UAVs as supported by Litchi

For the DJI consumer drones there is no opensource or inexpensive planning tool. As a flight control app, the powerful and very inexpensive Litchi is a good choice. The output of both Qgroundcontrol and uavRmp planned surveys is a Litchi CSV control file. After upload/import the flights are available via the Litchi mission Hub Cloud.

Open Litchi Mission and click on the button ‘‘Missions->Import’’ and navigate to the control file firstSurvey_1001.csv. To export it click ‘‘Missions->Save’’.