ArduPilot
World's most advanced autonomous vehicle software
World's most advanced autonomous vehicle software
ArduPilot is the world's most widely used open source flight code software for unmanned autonomous vehicles including planes, multicopters, helicopters, cars, boats, submarines, blimps, antenna trackers and much more.
Written primarily in C++, ArduPilot supports over 100 different types of autopilot hardware including the well known Pixhawk autopilot.
Our team motto, "Versatile, Trusted, Open" reflects our team's aim to provide high quality autopilot software that reliably supports a huge variety of frames, sensors and use cases. The software is open but so is the team, always welcoming of new contributors whether they be software developers, wiki documentors, testers or users.
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