ArduPilot now supports TiltWing VTOL aircraft! First test flights done earlier today in Canberra
We did the first test flights of the…
Added by Andrew Tridgell on January 24, 2017 at 11:30pm — 13 Comments
We'd love the diydrones community to jump aboard our testing effort for the new ArduPilot sensor system. See http://discuss.ardupilot.org/t/calling-all-testers-new-ardupilot-sensor-drivers/12741 for details
We have just implemented a major upgrade to the ArduPilot sensor drivers for…
Added by Andrew Tridgell on November 10, 2016 at 11:29pm — 1 Comment
New plane releases from ArduPilot.org:
Development is really hotting up for fixed wing and quadplanes! I've just released 3.7.1 and I plan on releasing the first beta of the major 3.8.0 release in the next…
Added by Andrew Tridgell on October 23, 2016 at 1:37am — 8 Comments
I have finally written up an article on our successful Outback Challenge 2016 entry
ContinueThe members of CanberraUAV are home from the Outback Challenge and life is starting to return to…
Added by Andrew Tridgell on October 16, 2016 at 11:17pm — 13 Comments
The ArduPilot development team is proud to announce the release of version 3.7.0 of APM:Plane. This is a major update so please read the notes carefully.
The biggest changes in this release are:
Added by Andrew Tridgell on September 8, 2016 at 5:34pm — 16 Comments
ArduPilot has been able to use X-Plane as a HIL (hardware in the loop) backend for quite some time, but it never worked particularly well as the limitations of the USB interface to the hardware prevented good sensor timings.
We have recently added the ability to use X-Plane 10 as a SITL backend, which works much better. The SITL (software…
ContinueAdded by Andrew Tridgell on June 30, 2016 at 4:53pm — 24 Comments
The ArduPilot development team is proud to announce the release of version 3.6.0 of APM:Plane. This is a major update so please read the notes carefully.
The biggest changes in this release are:
Added by Andrew Tridgell on June 10, 2016 at 5:00pm — 58 Comments
As mentioned on the 3.5.2 release discussion we have decided to do a 3.5.3 release to fix a couple of important bugs found by users in 3.5.2.
The main motivation for the release is a problem with flying without a compass enabled. If you fly 3.5.2 with MAG_ENABLE=0 or no compass attached then there is a risk that…
ContinueAdded by Andrew Tridgell on April 30, 2016 at 1:16am — 30 Comments
The ArduPilot development team is proud to announce the release of version 3.5.2 of APM:Plane. This is a minor release with small changes.
The main reason for this release over the recent 3.5.1 release is a fix for a bug where the px4io co-processor on a Pixhawk can run out of memory while booting. This causes…
Added by Andrew Tridgell on March 25, 2016 at 9:05pm — 73 Comments
If you have visited ardupilot.com recently you may have noticed you are redirected to our new documentation system on ardupilot.org. This is part of our on-going transformation of the ardupilot project that we announced in a previous…
Added by Andrew Tridgell on March 24, 2016 at 1:01am — 26 Comments
The ArduPilot development team is proud to announce the release of version 3.5.1 of APM:Plane. This is a minor release with primarily small changes.
The changes in this release are:
Added by Andrew Tridgell on March 20, 2016 at 3:50pm — 53 Comments
After the unfortunate crash of our last QuadPlane build with a failed ESC CanberraUAV wanted to build a new version with more redundancy in the VTOL part of the build. The result is the above OctaQuadPlane which we successfully flew for the first time yesterday.
When we…
ContinueAdded by Andrew Tridgell on March 13, 2016 at 12:59pm — 59 Comments
Added by Andrew Tridgell on February 26, 2016 at 11:30pm — 96 Comments
Not all of the adventures that CanberraUAV have with experimental aircraft go as well as we might hope. This is the story of our recent build of a large QuadPlane and how the flight ended in a crash.
As part of our efforts in developing aircraft for the…
ContinueAdded by Andrew Tridgell on February 25, 2016 at 1:00am — 81 Comments
The ArduPilot development team is proud to announce the release of the 3.5.0 version of APM:Plane. There have only been a few small changes since the 3.5.0beta1 release 3 weeks ago.
The key changes since 3.5.0beta1 are:
Added by Andrew Tridgell on January 29, 2016 at 8:07pm — 71 Comments
The ArduPilot development team is proud to announce the release of the first beta version of the 3.5.0 release of APM:Plane. We think this is going to be a great release and we'd love some feedback before we do the final version.
The biggest changes in this release are:
Added by Andrew Tridgell on January 8, 2016 at 9:00pm — 23 Comments
The upcoming 3.5.0 release of APM:Plane includes support for QuadPlane - a hybrid plane/multi-rotor that allows for high speed long distance flight with vertical takeoff and landing.
The above video shows a converted HobbyKing Firstar 2000 doing a fully autonomous mission, with VTOL takeoff, followed by automatic transition to fixed wing flight and then a…
ContinueAdded by Andrew Tridgell on January 8, 2016 at 8:08pm — 92 Comments
The ArduPilot development team is proud to announce the release of version 3.4.0 of APM:Plane. This is a major release with a lot of changes so please read the notes carefully!
First release with EKF by default
This is the also the first release that enables the…
Added by Andrew Tridgell on September 23, 2015 at 5:35pm — 77 Comments
Anyone who has been involved in aeromodelling for a while dreams of having one of those days when everything works right. It doesn't happen often, but when it does it sure is nice!
CanberraUAV had one of those days yesterday. It was a…
ContinueAdded by Andrew Tridgell on August 30, 2015 at 10:30pm — 40 Comments
APM:Plane 3.3.0 released
The ardupilot development team is proud to announce the release of version 3.3.0 of APM:Plane. This is a major release with a lot of changes. Please read the release notes carefully!
The last…
Added by Andrew Tridgell on May 20, 2015 at 1:27am — 140 Comments
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