ROS-enabled drone passport agent

Example of drone passport registration mechanism based on web3 technologies - Ethereum, IPFS and Robonomics network.

Watch demo on Youtube: Drone Passport dapp on Ethereum Blockchain or Drone Passport agent in action. Terminal view

About Distributed Sky project

In order to organize drone operations efficiently, we need to make sure that vehicles have a trusted environment to exchange data and record transactions.

Drone registration agent. It receives the following fields from the Dapp:

• Contact email
• Full name
• Pilot ID
• Serial number of a drone
• Registration number
• Generic type of the drone
• Manufacturer of the drone
• Model of the drone

ROS package details

Pre-setup

In launch/agent.launch fill in an email and a password

...
<param name="login" value="" /> <!-- Gmail account login -->
<param name="email_from" value="" /> <!-- if it's empty, email_from is equal to login -->
<param name="email_password" value="" /> <!-- Gmail account password -->
...

You can specify some addresses in the launch/composer.launch file

Build

$ nix build -f release.nix

Launch

To launch main agent run:

$ source ./result/setup.zsh (bash)
$ roslaunch drone_passport_agent agent.launch

The composer node is launched via:

$ roslaunch drone_passport_agent composer.launch

NixOS Service

To start the service as a system service add the following to /etc/nixos/configuration.nix:

systemd.services.de_direct = {
      requires = [ "roscore.service" ];
      after = ["roscore.service" ]; 
      wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];
      script = ''
        source /root/de_direct/result/setup.bash \
        && roslaunch de_direct agent.launch
      '';
      serviceConfig = {
        Restart = "on-failure";
        StartLimitInterval = 0;
        RestartSec = 60;
        User = "root";
      };
    };

and run

# nixos-rebuild switch

To test the service is up and running:

# systemctl status de_direct