Geo-Fencing

Note

Works identically on Andruav and DroneEngage — both go through the same WebClient.

Geo Fence means that you define areas where it is safe for your drone to fly in and other areas that are unsafe or forbidden to fly over.

This is not the GEO fence that Ardupilot supports. This Geo-Fencing is controlled by your unit itself, independent of the flight controller’s own fence. It is very flexible.


To access Geo-Fence click https://cloud.ardupilot.org:8001/mapeditor.html .

Geo-Fence Manager allows you to design geo-fences and mission plans for multiple drones at the same time. You can even design missions that interact with each other as in the below video. This is unique.


In the below image you can see two mission plans together with geo-fence regions. There is a green Geo-Fence region but inside it a no-fly zone in red. Another no-fly zone exists outside the green area.

Mission Planner

You can export each mission plan as a file to be uploaded from WebClient. Geo-Fences, on the other side, are saved for the whole group in the system database. Geo-Fences will be active each time your unit starts until it is deleted by the Geo-Fence editor .

Rules of Geo-Fence

  1. If there are only red no-fly zones, then you can fly anywhere except these areas.

  2. If there is one or more green-fly zone you need to fly into one of these areas.

  3. A red area can be inside a green area. You always need to be in the green but not in the red.


The following are good fence examples:

Good fence example 1 Good fence example 2

The following are bad fence examples:

Bad fence example 2 Bad fence example 2

Also this is a bad situation as green areas are defined and the drone is outside of it.

Bad fence example 1