APM: the Universal Autopilot

I just had to a share a bit of pride that I got checking out the latest release (1.1.11) of the Mission Planner. Look at all those vehicles APM now supports!!! To say nothing of all the hardware-in-the-loop simulations at the bottom left of that screen. And ArduRover, ArduBoat, and coming soon, ArduBlimp (successor to Blimpduino) and ArduTank (!).

I think we just need to add ArduSub and ArduRocket and we've got the entire world of vehicles covered. Not bad for $200 ;-)

This why we call APM the Universal Autopilot. As far as I know, this sort of one-autopilot-does-everything has never been accomplished before. So proud of the dev teams!

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Jeffrey Torella December 20, 2011 at 4:54pm

John C Excellent idea i think ill join you in that venture
John C. December 20, 2011 at 4:50pm

My kids have a couple of 1/10th scale trucks/buggys coming for xmas. I'm sure one of them is going to wind up with some extra intelligence.
Anish December 20, 2011 at 4:24pm

I am planning to have a ardu rover out of Baja with castle creation mamba xl conversion kit, might post it if I manage to get hold of APM in due time :)

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