ArduPilot is a trusted, versatile, and open source autopilot system supporting many vehicle types: multi-copters, traditional helicopters, fixed wing aircraft, boats, submarines, rovers and more. The source code is developed by a large community of professionals and enthusiasts.

ArduPilot enables the creation and use of trusted, autonomous, unmanned vehicle systems for the peaceful benefit of all. ArduPilot provides a comprehensive suite of tools suitable for almost any vehicle and application. As an open source project, it is constantly evolving based on rapid feedback from a large community of users. The Development Team works with the community and commercial partners to add functionality to ArduPilot that benefits everyone. Although ArduPilot does not manufacture any hardware, ArduPilot firmware works on a wide variety of different hardware to control unmanned vehicles of all types. Coupled with ground control software, unmanned vehicles running ArduPilot can have advanced functionality including real-time communication with operators. ArduPilot has a huge online community dedicated to helping users with questions, problems, and solutions. https://ardupilot.org/

This talk is an introduction to ArduPilot project. It will emphasis what can be done from a software point of view, what hardware (we are far from Arduino) and robotic vectors can be used (we aren't not restricted to UFO), and what are the testing and simulation capabilities (aka stop crashing your robots). It will also showcase relationship to some other major projects like ROS2 and Gazebo or AI (added for better SEO).

This won't be a tutorial or live demo session but a true introduction of the project.