About

About Me:

Software development director a UGCS.com


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

- ground control software development - robotics


Hometown:

Riga


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Alexei Yankelevich posted a blog post
Flying drones over long distances or scanning large areas is always challenging. One of the biggest problems is the limited drone communication range. Of course, a drone can fly along the route pre-developed in UgCS, but receiving drone telemetry or…
Oct 26, 2021
Alexei Yankelevich replied to Leonardo Fuica Babogredac's discussion RTH after lost signal and the same altitude result in to crash, two times in UgCS
"Hi Leonardo

Let me just repeat your case.
Which value did you have for "Action on RC loss"? Was it "Continue" or "Do not modify"?
And if I got you right on lost RC drone returned home?
Was the crash during landing?
What was the altitude during…"
May 23, 2020
Alexei Yankelevich replied to Rotem Shfaim's discussion DJI A3 without Lightbridge in UgCS
"Hi Rotem

we have a solution to control A3-based drone over LTE. For now it is possible to control it through UgCS (joystick control and mission flights). Though due to some DJI limitations arm still has to be performed through the RC. The rest is…"
Aug 28, 2019
Alexei Yankelevich replied to Thomas Stanley-Jones's discussion Parrot Anafi in UgCS
"Hi,

there is no official support for Anafi in UgCS, so far. Maybe later this year we'll be able to support it if MavLink will be among the supported control protocols for Anafi.
 "
Jul 14, 2019
Alexei Yankelevich replied to Greg's discussion Corridor scan in UgCS in UgCS
"Hi Greg,

we are developing it right now and plan to release very shortly this summer. Will keep you posted. You can send a message to support@ugcs.com, so we could notify you.  

BR,
Alexei Yankelevich
UgCS Team"
Jun 4, 2019
Alexei Yankelevich replied to ActionDrone's discussion Vertical survey in UgCS
"Hi,
In UgCS 3.0 there is no special tool so far to build vertical survey grid. Now waypoints can be used to build the path along with constant heading specified to point drone nose to the wall.  
 
we are working on the several things:
1) a basic…"
Sep 17, 2018
Alexei Yankelevich replied to Luke's discussion Matching Elevation Sources in UgCS
"Hey Luke, can you please share your DSM with support@ugcs.com to reproduce the problem? Also please let us now the UgCS version.

BR
Alexei Yankelevich"
Aug 18, 2018
Alexei Yankelevich replied to Eben N. Broadbent's discussion Waypoint debug feature - be cautious if used in UgCS
"Hello Eben,
we will try to investigate this incident ASAP.
please let me know which version of Ugcs for DJI did you use? Was it alfa version of Ugcs for DJI 2.13 available for beta testers? Also please let me how did you activate this "waypoint…"
Aug 4, 2018
Alexei Yankelevich replied to Steve Cudmore's discussion Uploading UGCS Flight Route - Internet Required or possible with only a LAN? in UgCS
"The standard approach is the following.
Android phone with UgCS for DJI application is connected to LightBridge 2 via USB.
UgCS Desktop is on your  laptop.
Laptop and phone are in the same WiFi network. This can be either a wifi hotspot on the phone…"
May 30, 2018
Alexei Yankelevich replied to Steve Cudmore's discussion Uploading UGCS Flight Route - Internet Required or possible with only a LAN? in UgCS
"Steve,

which drone do you use?"
May 30, 2018
Alexei Yankelevich replied to John Fitter's discussion UgCS for GPR in UgCS
"Should the 3D client be letting the NVidia do the hard work and not loading up the CPU?

- it should

If you let us, I can ask our support engineer to connect remotely and check which component is heating your room. "
Aug 22, 2017
Alexei Yankelevich replied to John Fitter's discussion UgCS for GPR in UgCS
"John,

thank you for your feedback.
1. yes, we have special conditions for universities. Please drop us an e-mail to ugcs@ugcs.com for more information
2. regarding processor. Yes, that is known issue. 3D client is trying to show best framerate…"
Aug 22, 2017
Alexei Yankelevich replied to Curtis's discussion UgCS Mapper in UgCS
"Curtis,

Thank you for your feedback.

Mapper is a very simple software so far. Standard process is the following:  
- select source directory with images
- select destination directory with the result
- optionally select camera type
- press process…"
Aug 13, 2017
Alexei Yankelevich replied to Juan Miguel's discussion UTM Coordinates format? in UgCS
"Juan,

Thank you. Got the idea. I'll add it as a feature request.
UgCS uses WGS84.   

BR,  
Alexei
UgCS Team "
Jun 30, 2017
Alexei Yankelevich replied to Juan Miguel's discussion UTM Coordinates format? in UgCS
"Dear Juan,

at present time, unfortunately, it is not possible to use UTM coordinates in UGCS. But could you please answer a couple of questions to make your use-case more clear for me:  
1. do you want to import UTM topographical map into UgCS and…"
Jun 30, 2017
Alexei Yankelevich replied to Francois G's discussion APM 2.8 - UGCS 2.7.125 Ubuntu "upload failed Route not accepted" in UgCS
"Hi Francois!
Sorry for late answer. Can you please provide information about used vehicle profile in UgCS?
Also as I can see Server component unexpectedly close connection when you try to upload your mission. Could you please send us all logs from…"
May 13, 2016
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