NOCTIS

NOCTIS contains all the control and GUI software intended to control a Parrot ANAFI USA drone. It's purpose to find and tracking target out of a defined area using the map editor.

Setup

NOCTIS was developed on Ubuntu 22.04, however as long as your environment supports Olympe the software should work.

NOCTIS also supports the Raspberry Pi 4B as this was the primary target for the software. I will later include build instructions for compiling Olympe from source on the RPi but TBA for now.

NOTE: Sphinx only supports certain Linux Distros (Ubuntu/Debian).

Dotnet

You will need at least Dotnet 7.0. The following commands should work for Ubuntu 22.04.

sudo apt-get update && \
  sudo apt-get install -y dotnet-sdk-7.0

sudo apt-get update && \
  sudo apt-get install -y aspnetcore-runtime-7.0

Python

You will need the following Python packages. Sphinx is necessary to run everything locally in a simulation however this is not required.

pip install parrot-olympe

curl --fail --silent --show-error --location https://debian.parrot.com/gpg | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/debian.parrot.com.gpg > /dev/null
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/debian.parrot.com.gpg] https://debian.parrot.com/ $(lsb_release -cs) main generic" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.parrot.com.list
sudo apt update

sudo apt install parrot-sphinx
sudo apt install parrot-ue4-empty

For Google Maps you'll need to install the planet map.

sudo apt install parrot-ue4-planet

API Keys

To run the WebUI of NOCTIS you must add your API key for Google Maps otherwise the map editor will not function. I have include environment.cs.example for you use and replace with your own API key. Be sure to save it as environment.cs.

namespace WebUI.Env
{
  public class Vars
  {
    public const string API_KEY = "{YOUR_GOOGLE_API_KEY}";
  }
}

Additionally, if you'd like to use Google Maps with Parrot Sphinx for simulation at specific coordinates be sure to add you keys to planet.yaml.example and save it as planet.yaml.

Cesium:
  - GoogleKey: '{YOUR_GOOGLE_API_KEY}'
    CesiumToken: '{YOUR_CESIUM_API_KEY}'
    TilesetSource: 'Google'
    IonAssetId: 2275207

Run

To launch the GUI first navigate to WebUI and start the dotnet project.

cd ./WebUI
dotnet run

To use Sphinx as a simulated drone execute start_example.sh or with Google Maps try ./start_pic.sh.

./start_pic.sh