Features include:
- Return to Launch with a flick of your RC toggle switch or a mouse click in the graphical Ground Station
- Unlimited 3D GPS waypoints
- Built-in camera control
- Fully-scriptable missions
- One-click software load, and easy point-and-click configuration in the powerful Mission Planner. NO programming required!
- Replay recorded missions and analyze all the data with a graphing interface
- Supports two-way telemetry with Xbee wireless modules.
- Point-and-click waypoint entry or real-time mission commands while the UAV is in the air
- Fly with a joystick or gamepad via your PC--no need for RC control!
- Built-in failsafe will bring your aircraft home in the case of radio loss
All instructions and software are here.
APM 2 is an open source, Arduino-compatible, pro-quality autopilot. It is the most advanced IMU-based open source autopilot available today, and provides an entire UAV control system with scriptable missions with 3D waypoints, in-flight uploading of commands and powerful ground station software.
APM 2 supports any kind of of vehicle with a one-click change of code. Available code include ArduPlane (fixed wing), ArduCopter (rotary wing), ArduRover (ground vehicles) and more.
Everything you need to create an ArduPlane UAV:
* APM 2.5 autopilot with GPS ($179)
* [Optional] Telemetry kit ($75).
You'll also need a at least a five-channel RC radio setup, a soldering iron, a mini USB cable and of course something that flies! (We're partial to the SkyFun delta wing (right) and
Bixlee 2 powered glider (left) or its equivalents ourselves).
Resources:
Manual
Source code/firmware
Note: ArduPilot Mega requires no programming, but it's open source and you're welcome to modify it if you'd like. If you are going to play with the code, you can use the free Arduino IDE to edit and upload the code to the ArduPilot board.
Comments
Hello, I have installed my new Mega and shield in a Great Planes EP Super Sportster and it worked fine.
With the default set up, "Stabilize" behaved perfectly, It flys better than I do.
Small complaint though, as delivered the red "C" LED on the shield was in backwards and in trying to remove it and put it in correctly, the LED itself came apart. Verified correct operation with a standard LED, but I don't have any sub micro surface mount LEDs. Could you identify this LED and let me know the current rating on it?
Another thought! I had incorrectly programmed the servo reversals in both manual and on the ArduPilot in auto modes. Fortunately I caught this just before takeoff, but it is very easy to do and I would greatly suggest a strong warning to be very careful in this regard.
Also fixed now
Seems to be the sameissue with the arducopter wiki??
Bjorn. Thanks for the catch. Now fixed.
Links broken? Tried to access the wiki, but it seems I can't (no menu to the left)
Jonny, where did you find that manual??? That's dating back to 2009 and the very first ArduPilot!! That's a totally different product, long ago discontinued.
Seriously, how did you even find it? I didn't even know there was still of copy of that ancient manual out there.
Jonny: never heard of that one, I'm afraid.
Thanks Chris, I'll wait until everything else is finished and buy the APM last.
Bill, we release new hardware versions (memory or sensor upgrades) approximately every six months. That's been true for three years and will continue as far as we can see.
Are there plans to release a new version of the hardware or is it mature and now only the software is being developed?
Thanks, Bill
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