Flying robots, a wonderful obsession
summary
ArduPilot now supports tiny 100 g micro‑drones up to machines over a tonne, with over 70 flight controllers, hundreds of thousands of vehicles flying, 16,000+ git changes and 400+ contributors. New tooling includes an AP_Periph system to build CAN peripherals that run ArduPilot firmware, an embedded Lua engine for onboard custom fail‑safes and mixers, and a hwdef.dat compiler that auto‑generates STM32 board ports. Reliable field debugging uses watchdog reports, an AP virtual filesystem and MAVFTP file delivery.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:08AudreyPilot
- 2:27ARGUPilot
- 4:42Lua scripting
- 7:34Lua script example
- 9:24Advanced file safe example
- 13:28Advanced frame controls example
- 15:23Hardware definitions rapid porting
- 18:51Under the hood
- 22:22AP Periph
- 26:27Watchdog Support
- 31:40AP File System
- 33:26Vehicles
- 38:57Community
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