Award-winning ground control software

Award-Winning Ground Control Station

Professional C# ground control software that runs all combat-UAV missions from a single window and communicates latency-free with flight controllers over MAVLink.

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Role: Software developer
Period: 2021
Field: UAV and drones · Web, desktop and mobile
Status: Award-winning ground control software

Tech stack

C#
.NET WinForm
MAVLink
Mission Planner
Multi-threading
MaterialSkin

01 · Overview

Overview

The professional control software I built for KAPGAN and other UAVs, handling communication between the UAV and the ground computer. I wrote it in C# / .NET Framework to run every combat-UAV mission from a single application.

02 · Solution

Mission Planner Integration & Architecture

By including Mission Planner's source and libraries, I established direct, latency-free communication with flight controllers over MAVLink. A multi-threaded, layered architecture gave low latency and easy extensibility; MaterialSkin provided a modern, user-friendly UI.

03 · Solution

Testing & Usability

Real-time logging made fault diagnosis easy; IP/port/baud-rate settings were gathered in a single window. I also added a module that emulates the competition server for end-to-end testing before going to the field.

04 · Result

Outputs & Results

This software was the backbone of KAPGAN's "Most Original Software" award at Teknofest 2021, making a competition mission manageable from one place — latency-free and reliably.

Layered Architecture

L1Interface
- MaterialSkin
- Single window
- User-friendly
L2MAVLink & Mission Planner
- Flight controller comms
- Latency-free commands
L3Server & Telemetry
- Competition server
- Telemetry sharing
- Test/simulation module
L4Infrastructure
- Multi-threading
- Real-time logging

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