ArduPilot Project

The ArduPilot project is made up of:

• ArduCopter (or APM:Copter) : code, wiki

• ArduPlane (or APM:Plane) : code, wiki

• ArduRover (or APMrover2) : code, wiki

• ArduSub (or APM:Sub) : code, wiki

• Antenna Tracker : code, wiki

User Support & Discussion Forums

• Support Forum: http://discuss.ardupilot.org/

• Community Site: http://ardupilot.org

Developer Information

• Github repository: https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot

• Main developer wiki: http://dev.ardupilot.org

• Developer discussion: http://discuss.ardupilot.org

• Developer chat: https://gitter.im/ArduPilot/ardupilot

Contributors

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How To Get Involved

• The ArduPilot project is open source and we encourage participation and code contributions: guidelines for contributors to the ardupilot codebase

• We have an active group of Beta Testers especially for ArduCopter to help us find bugs: release procedures

• Desired Enhancements and Bugs can be posted to the issues list.

• Helping other users with log analysis on http://discuss.ardupilot.org/ is always appreciated:

• There is a group of wiki editors as well in case documentation is your thing: [email protected]

• Developer discussions occur on [email protected]

License

The ArduPilot project is licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 3.

• Overview of license

• Full Text

Maintainers

Ardupilot is comprised of several parts, vehicles and boards. The list below contains the people that regularly contribute to the project and are responsible for reviewing patches on their specific area. See CONTRIBUTING.md for more information.

• Andrew Tridgell:
  • Vehicle: Plane, AntennaTracker
  • Board: APM1, APM2, Pixhawk, Pixhawk2, PixRacer
• Randy Mackay:
  • Vehicle: Copter, Rover, AntennaTracker
• Grant Morphett:
  • Vehicle: Rover
• Tom Pittenger:
  • Vehicle: Plane
• Chris Olson and Bill Geyer:
  • Vehicle: TradHeli
• Paul Riseborough:
  • Subsystem: AP_NavEKF2
  • Subsystem: AP_NavEKF3
• Lucas De Marchi:
  • Subsystem: Linux
• Peter Barker:
  • Subsystem: DataFlash
  • Subsystem: Tools
• Michael du Breuil:
  • Subsystem: SMBus Batteries
  • Subsystem: GPS
• Francisco Ferreira:
  • Bug Master
• Matthias Badaire:
  • Subsystem: FRSky
• Eugene Shamaev:
  • Subsystem: CAN bus
  • Subsystem: UAVCAN
• Víctor Mayoral Vilches:
  • Board: PXF, Erle-Brain 2, PXFmini
• Mirko Denecke:
  • Board: BBBmini, BeagleBone Blue, PocketPilot
• Georgii Staroselskii:
  • Board: NavIO
• Emile Castelnuovo:
  • Board: VRBrain
• Julien Beraud:
  • Board: Bebop & Bebop 2
• Matt Lawrence:
  • Vehicle: 3DR Solo & Solo based vehicles
• Gustavo José de Sousa:
  • Subsystem: Build system
• Craig Elder:
  • Administration: ArduPilot Technical Community Manager
• Jacob Walser:
  • Vehicle: Sub
• Pierre Kancir:
  • Subsystem: Copter SITL, Rover SITL
• Leonard Hall:
  • Subsystem: Copter attitude control and navigation