Don’t Drone Yourself in Work: Discussing DronOS as a Framework for Human-Drone Interaction

Abstract

More and more off-the-shelf drones provide frameworks that enable the programming of flight paths. These frameworks provide vendor-dependent programming and communication interfaces that are intended for flight path definitions. However, they are often limited to outdoor and GPS-based use only. A key disadvantage of such a solution is that they are complicated to use and require readjustments when changing the drone model. This is timeconsuming since it requires redefining the flight path for the new framework. This workshop paper proposes additional features for DronOS, a community-driven framework that enables model-independent automatisation and programming of drones. We enhanced DronOS to include additional functions to account for the specific design constraints in human-drone-interaction. This paper provides a starting point for discussing the requirements involved in designing a drone system with other researchers within the humandrone interaction community. We envision DronOS as a community-driven framework that can be applied to generic drone models, hence enabling the automatisation for any commercially available drone. Our goal is to build DronOS as a software tool that can be easily used by researchers and practitioners to prototype novel drone-based systems.