Zeroth Project Review

PolarisGCS
Cloud Ground Control System

Commanding a heterogeneous drone fleet from a single cloud-hosted dashboard.

Domain

Where This Project Lives

01Robotics
02Cloud Infrastructure
03Distributed Systems
02 / 06 — DOMAIN

Problem — Part 1

Operational Fragmentation

Drone operations today are split across disconnected tools and manual processes.

  • Each platform requires its own interface and expertise
  • Mission planning and execution remain manual, error-prone, and slow
  • Lost telemetry and mission data; no historical record across platforms
03 / 06 — PROBLEM

Problem — Part 2

No Single Vantage Point

Fleet coordination breaks down when drones live in isolated operational silos.

  • Operators cannot see or command the entire fleet from one place
  • Safety decisions made without complete situational awareness across all platforms
  • Scaling beyond a handful of drones becomes operationally impossible
04 / 06 — PROBLEM

Architecture

One Consistent Path

🛰️
Drone(s)
real or SITL
🖥️
Gateway
MAVLink → WebSocket
🗄️
Backend
FastAPI · Redis · DB
🗺️
Frontend
REST / WS dashboard

Every drone — real or simulated — reaches the operator through one identical path.

05 / 06 — ARCHITECTURE

Thank You.