Mission upload and execution in Drone Programming - Mini Project: Build & Apply

Mission upload and execution

📖 Scenario: You are programming a drone to perform a simple mission. The drone needs to fly to specific GPS coordinates in order, hover for a moment, and then move to the next point. This project will guide you through uploading a mission with waypoints and executing it step-by-step.

🎯 Goal: Build a program that uploads a list of GPS waypoints as a mission to the drone and then executes the mission by flying to each waypoint in order.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a list of GPS waypoints with exact coordinates

Set a mission name variable

Write a loop to upload each waypoint to the drone

Print the mission execution status after flying all waypoints

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Drones often need to fly specific routes for tasks like surveying, delivery, or inspection. Programming missions with waypoints is a common real-world task.

💼 Career

Understanding how to upload and execute missions is important for drone operators, robotics programmers, and automation engineers.

1

Create the mission waypoints list

Create a list called mission_waypoints with these exact GPS coordinates as tuples: (34.0001, -117.0001), (34.0002, -117.0002), (34.0003, -117.0003).

Drone Programming

# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use a list with tuples for each GPS coordinate.

2

Set the mission name

Create a string variable called mission_name and set it to "Test Flight 1".

Drone Programming

mission_waypoints = [(34.0001, -117.0001), (34.0002, -117.0002), (34.0003, -117.0003)]
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use a simple string assignment.

3

Upload each waypoint to the drone

Use a for loop with variable waypoint to iterate over mission_waypoints and call upload_waypoint(waypoint) inside the loop.

Drone Programming

mission_waypoints = [(34.0001, -117.0001), (34.0002, -117.0002), (34.0003, -117.0003)]
mission_name = "Test Flight 1"
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use a for loop to send each waypoint to the drone.

4

Execute the mission and print status

Call execute_mission() and then print exactly "Mission Test Flight 1 completed successfully." using the mission_name variable.

Drone Programming

mission_waypoints = [(34.0001, -117.0001), (34.0002, -117.0002), (34.0003, -117.0003)]
mission_name = "Test Flight 1"
for waypoint in mission_waypoints:
    upload_waypoint(waypoint)
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Call the execute function and print the message using an f-string.