Autonomous Drone Mission Planning
Sim to flight missions planned and validated in Gazebo before they fly.
- Client
- Confidential
- Year
- 2024
- Category
- Robotics
- Role
- Design + Build
- Timeline
- 6–8 weeks
The problem
Testing autonomous flight behaviour on real hardware is slow and risky. A crash costs a week.
What we built
A Gazebo simulation of the quad and its environment lets missions, including waypoints, altitudes and behaviours, be built and validated in software first, then executed on the real airframe through a QGroundControl link. The loop is: plan, simulate, adjust, fly.
The result
Mission behaviour is proven in sim before it ever leaves the ground, so field time is spent flying working missions, not debugging them.
- full airframe + environment simulation
- Gazebofull airframe + environment simulation
- same plan runs in sim and on the airframe
- QGC linksame plan runs in sim and on the airframe
- validated in software before the field
- plan → flyvalidated in software before the field
Built with
- Gazebo
- QGroundControl
- PX4 / ArduPilot
- Python
- ROS
We deliver what we commit.
Tell us what you're trying to build.
We'll come back within 24 hours with honest feedback on scope, timeline and cost, whether or not we turn out to be the right fit.