Integration av MAVLink i en molnbaserad drönar-operator

Drones are being increasingly adopted across various sectors, including healthcare, agriculture, construction and upkeep of infrastructure. This creates a growing demand for drone operators capable of controlling these drones autonomously. This thesis aims to integrate the MAVLink protocol into an existing cloud based drone operator developed by Ericsson, Ericsson Drone Mobility (EDM). By creating a prototype, which allows planning, uploading and executing missions using the existing EDM platform. But being able to communicate with drones that use the MAVLink protocol. Two different system architectures were discussed and compared, the choice of architecture came down to simplicity to implement with the preexisting system. Drone flight was simulated to test the system. The result shows that the prototype was successful with the chosen tasks.