Multiple Emulated Drones

Posted by Stevod on July 30, 2017 at 5:23am

I'd like to fly more than one emulated drone simultaneously. The website says that I can fly "unlimited multi-drones", which I would like to think includes emulated ones (as they are important to avoid later collisions between multiple drones in the real-world!).

The manual says that additional vehicles will be detected automatically, and I have tried various combinations of modifying the config files for the vsm, emulator and service-manager to try and start an additional process to create and access an additional emulator instance, but nothing has worked. Is this possible, and if so, what do I need to do?

I can run on Windows or Ubuntu (but headless-only on Ubuntu, no GUI client, just the server-side UCS).

I will upgrade to a more functional version of UgCS if necessary, though it would be nice for users to be able to fly with multiple emulators to hone their skills.

Thanks,

Stevod

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  • 3DR_Fan August 7, 2017 at 4:12pm

    Hi Alexey,

    I don't have a screenshot of the error now. I replaced the file with the one you attached.

    I'm using 2.11.150

    Even with the new emulator properties file, with 50 drones defined, I'm able to add only 1 copter and 1 plane.

    I'm using the Open version as of now. Is there a restriction in that version? I would think that is not the case.

  • Alexey Dobrovolskiy August 7, 2017 at 3:55pm

    Hi,

    could you post text of error message, screenshot, etc?

    What version of UgCS do you use?

  • 3DR_Fan August 7, 2017 at 12:00pm

    Hi Alexey,

    I'm trying to do the same task. At this point, I'm able to add only one EMU copter and 1 plane.

    I tried making changes to my EMU properties file.

    But UGCS gives me an error now when I try to start.

    I even tried replacing the file with the one you attached in this thread.

    Can you give me some directions on how to fix this? 

    Thank you,

  • Alexey Dobrovolskiy August 2, 2017 at 4:23pm

    And please note that they are from my home Windows computer, you may need to correct these parameters in vsm-emulator.conf

    log.file_path=C:\\Users\\Administrator\\AppData\\Local/UGCS/logs\\vsm-emulator\\vsm-emulator.log
    vehicle.emulator.mission_dump_path=C:\\Users\\Administrator\\AppData\\Local/UGCS/logs\\vsm-emulator\\mission\\dump

  • Alexey Dobrovolskiy August 2, 2017 at 4:20pm

    Hi Stevod,

    I'm very sorry, I attached config files for UgCS 2.12 which is under development

    For UgCS 2.11 please use attached files

    emulator.properties

    vsm-emulator.conf

  • Stevod August 1, 2017 at 12:03pm

    service manager log attached.

    service-manager.log

  • Stevod August 1, 2017 at 12:01pm

    Thanks Alexey. I have saved your files to the relevant directories, and restarted, but UGCS won't load the vehicles correctly - see attached screenshot. I have reinstalled from scratch, including deleting User and App Data on Win 10, but the problem persists.

    I have attached the relevant log files. Any idea what is going on? The vsm-emulator.log file is empty

    Thanks,

    Stevod 

    3702390841?profile=original

    ucs.log

    emulator.log

  • Alexey Dobrovolskiy July 30, 2017 at 3:22pm

    .. this will work even with UgCS Open.

  • Alexey Dobrovolskiy July 30, 2017 at 3:21pm

    Hi, you need to modify 2 files

    - emulator.propertiers (located in UgCS\server\emulator of UgCS installation directory) 

    - vsm-emulator.conf (located in UgCS\bin)

    I attached samples of files for 50 copters. We use them for Drone Dance Controller tests.

    Do not forget to restart UgCS after config files modification.

    emulator.properties

    vsm-emulator.conf

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