01 · Overview
Overview
Our first UAV project, built for the Teknofest 2019 Combat UAV competition under the motto "We will carve the name of martyr Fırat Yılmaz Çakıroğlu into the skies".
Teknofest 2019 · Turkey 8th
FIRAT Combat UAV
My first UAV project (Teknofest 2019). I owned the server and inter-unit communication software; we placed 8th in Turkey, 3rd in Marmara and 1st in Bursa.
Highlights
- in Turkey
- 8.
- Marmara region
- 3.
- Bursa
- 1.
- Role
- Server & inter-unit communication
- Period
- 2019
- Field
- UAV and drones
- Status
- Teknofest 2019 · Turkey 8th
Tech stack
- C#
- C / C++
- MAVLink
- HTTP API / JSON
- Mission Planner
02 · Solution
My Role
I worked as a C, C++ and C# developer on the UAV's server communication and inter-unit data flow. By modifying Mission Planner's open-source code, I enabled data sharing with the competition server over HTTP API + JSON and MAVLink, plus the interface integration.
03 · Result
Outputs & Results
In our first-ever competition we placed 8th in Turkey, 3rd in the Marmara region and 1st in Bursa — the start of a UAV-software journey that later reached the national championship (KAPGAN).
Software Architecture
- L1Mission Planner Integration
- C# / C++
- Open-source modification
- MAVLink
- L2Server Communication
- Competition server
- HTTP API + JSON
- Data sharing
- L3Interface
- Inter-unit comms
- Ground control UI
Gallery
Videos
Need software for a competition or field UAV?
I build the server and inter-unit communication and the ground-station integration (MAVLink, Mission Planner) that gets your team to the finals.
For example:Competition server integrationMAVLink telemetry & commandsMission Planner customization
- Outcome of this project
- Turkey 8th · Marmara 3rd · Bursa 1st
- First step
- Discovery & Feasibility — Free
- Requirements analysis · Technical roadmap · Rough plan and proposal document. Discovery and feasibility are free. The price and timeline of the project itself depend on its scope and come as a firm quote at the end of that work.
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- Developer of the Teknofest 2021 champion UAV software
- From a single consult to end-to-end delivery
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