Roadmap

The work is divided into several work packages. There is deliberately no timeline attached, as this depends very much on available time.

Vision

The vision of this project is for it to become an alternative to QGroundControl and Mission Planner. The GCS will be designed with multi-vehicle operations in mind.

Connectivity

• Basic simulator to simulate a fixed-wing UAV. This enables a demo mode to test functionality without actually connecting to a vehicle.

• Crossfire CRSF protocol via webserial. This enables using WebGCS as a visualizer for Crossfire telemetry.

• Browser-compatible Mavlink parser and serializer. Existing libraries only work with Node.js.
• Mavlink communication via webserial. This is a prerequisite for components that rely on Mavlink telemetry and commands.
• Mavlink communication via raw websocket. This also requires a server-side utility to wrap raw mavlink packets into binary websocket format. Raw mavlink is preferred over utilities like mavlink2rest, to save bandwidth.

UI Components

• Basic Mapbox integration. This will enable the use of Mapbox maps in WebGCS.

• Basic telemetry display. This will show basic telemetry data from the UAV.

• Multi-vehicle go-to waypoint commands. Design intuitive UI for selecting and commanding vehicles.

• Flight trail display. Show the path of the vehicle on the map.

Project Maintenance

• Create a basic website and publish it.

• Create a more complete text for the vision.

• Create the about page for the website.

• Create markdown pages, including for the roadmap.

• Create more items for the roadmap.

• Get the documentation pages going using markdown and mdsvex.

• Create documentation for installation instructions.