Systems and methods for shared drone usage are disclosed. A drone owned by one party is made available for control by a second party through a combination of drone-end software, a streaming service, and a system backend. The second party is provided a set of controls that is translated into the manufacturer-designated controls for the drone.

A fishing system includes an unmanned aerial vehicle and a fishing line fixing portion placed on a main body of the unmanned aerial vehicle, the fishing line fixing portion including a first fixing portion for fixing a fishing line and a second fixing portion detachably connected to the first fixing portion. The unmanned aerial vehicle includes an imaging device, a fish school tracking processing unit configured to identify a fish in imaging data captured by the imaging device and control the unmanned aerial vehicle to track the fish. A connection between the first fixing portion and the second fixing portion is released when the fish is hooked on an artificial bait attached to a first end of the fishing line.

Embodiments of a payload attachment system secure a payload to a wing or fuselage of the drone (or another type of aircraft) using one or more vacuum mounting modules, wherein each vacuum mounting module comprises at least one vacuum pump controllably coupled to a microcontroller, a vacuum cup fluidly coupled to the at least one vacuum pump, and a transceiver that receives an instruction corresponding to one of a vacuum cup actuation signal or a vacuum cup release signal.

Systems and methods for shared drone usage are disclosed. A drone owned by one party is made available for control by a second party through a combination of drone-end software, a streaming service, and a system backend. The second party is provided a set of controls that is translated into the manufacturer-designated controls for the drone.