Federated Drone & Robot Coordination Hub — bRRAIn Docs
Global federation control plane for fleets of drones and robots across sites and operators.
Federated Drone & Robot Coordination Hub
A control plane for coordinating fleets of drones, ground robots, and other autonomous agents across multiple sites and operators — with bRRAIn as the brain.
What it does
If you operate more than a handful of robots, you've discovered that fleet management is hard: device registration, mission planning, telemetry capture, fault response, multi-site coordination, regulatory logging. The Hub gives you:
- Device registry — every robot tracked from cradle to grave.
- Mission planning — declarative mission specs validated before launch.
- Real-time fleet view — every device's position, state, mission, and health.
- Federation — share fleets with partners, customers, or other sites under scoped policies.
- Compliance evidence — regulator-ready logs of every flight, drive, or autonomous decision.
- Handler reasoning — bRRAIn answers fleet-state questions in plain English.
Use cases
- Inspection drone fleet across a utility's distribution network.
- Warehouse robot fleet across a distributed fulfillment operation.
- Public safety drone deployment with multi-agency coordination.
- Construction-site monitoring across long-baseline projects.
- Agriculture (spraying, scouting, harvest) at farm- or cooperative-level scale.
Installing
Per-organization subscription with per-device entitlement. Per-mission compute usage is metered.
After install:
- A fleet view mounts under your Console.
- The first-time wizard registers your first device and walks you through a sample mission.
Supported platforms
We integrate with most commercial fleet APIs and open-source robot stacks. Out-of-the-box support includes:
- Drone platforms — DJI Enterprise, Skydio, Parrot, Auterion-based, ArduPilot, PX4.
- Ground robotics — Boston Dynamics Spot, Clearpath, Universal Robots arms, Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR).
- Open robot stacks — ROS 1, ROS 2, MAVLink, custom via the Generic Device adapter.
Device registry
Each device gets a record with:
- Make, model, serial.
- Software / firmware versions.
- Sensors and effectors.
- Maintenance history.
- Regulatory registration (FAA part 107, equivalents in other jurisdictions).
- Assigned operator(s) and home base.
- Current status (idle, en route, on mission, returning, fault, offline).
Mission planning
A mission is a declarative spec:
- Target area or waypoint sequence.
- Sensor capture schedule (RGB, thermal, LiDAR, custom).
- Behavior tree (route plan, geofences, no-fly zones, contingency reactions).
- Termination criteria (fuel level, time-of-day, weather, operator command).
- Escalation policy (what to do on fault).
- Compliance tags (regulatory class, mission category).
Missions are validated before launch — geofence violations, restricted-airspace conflicts, weather rule-outs, fleet-conflict checks all run pre-flight.
Real-time fleet view
A live map (or 3D scene if paired with Digital Double) shows:
- Every device's current position.
- Mission state and progress.
- Telemetry overlays (battery, signal, sensor health).
- Fleet-wide alerts.
Operators can hand off control of a device, pause a mission, recall a device, or upload a new mission on the fly.
Federation
Multiple organizations can share fleets under federation policies:
- Mutual visibility — see each other's fleet state.
- Mission handoff — pass an active mission to the partner organization (e.g., across jurisdictional boundaries).
- Combined planning — joint missions where some devices belong to each partner.
Federation is scoped — you control which devices, missions, and telemetry your partner sees.
Compliance evidence
Every command issued and every autonomous decision made is logged with:
- Device, operator, mission.
- Time and location.
- Pre-state, action, post-state.
- Sensor data captured at the moment.
- Any rule-set violations and their resolution.
Logs export in regulator-friendly formats (FAA, EASA, EU MASS, custom).
Scopes required
- Read and write in the
extensions/drone-robot-hubzone. - Access to the device-API integrations you wire up.
- Permission to spawn one non-human actor per registered device.
- Notifier write for fleet alerts.
Where to next
- 3D Digital Double — for 3D scene visualization.
- Fleet Management & Logistics Dispatch — for vehicle-fleet coordination.
- The extension's in-app help for platform-specific integration.