ArduPilot Development Report - Mar 2025.pptx

ArduPilot Development Report - Mar 2025.pptx

1. ArduPilot Development Report Mar 2025 Andrew Tridgell, Randy Mackay, AP Dev Team

2. The last month saw a moderate level of activity in our github repository: 358 patches affecting 13k lines of code, 63 wiki updates 45 contributors Two weekly dev calls attendance regularly 15+ people (more welcome!) Statistics

3. Since last partner call we had changes to the following system drivers Fixed multicast UDP CAN with multiple bridges Fixed object tracking for ViewPro Added ZeroOne_Air, SULILGH7 boards Switched Linux HAL to hwdef system Fixed brushed support for omni rovers Improved littlefs performance Fixed config timeout for M10 uBlox GPS Support IOMCU operation on CubeRed secondary Fixed MCU voltage min/max logging D river Changes CubeRed

4. Copter / Rover / Tracker Updates 4.6.0-beta4 released ( announcement ) CADDX camera gimbal support ARMING_NEED_LOC blocks arming until position OK uAvionix ping200X driver fixes ViewPro camera gimbal object tracking fixed Some issues remain but perhaps just one more beta TradHeli internal errors QuadPlane EKF3 divergence before arming 4.7.0-dev work ongoing EKF3 variance fixes for ExtNav/VisOdom (Rishabh) CRSF RC transmitter custom scripts (Andy Piper) MAVLink optical flow driver accuracy improved (Sanket Sharma) CRSF Custom Scripts

5. Plane stable release is at 4 .5 .7 4.6.0 is at beta4 , new since beta3: fixed AM32 passthru fixed lua corruption from ROMFS BMP581 initialisation fix BETAFPV-F405 board variants added Plane update plane AUTOLAND mode

6. AP GSoC 2025 List of suggestion projects is here and includes: Non-GPS Position Estimation Using 3D Camera and Pre-Generated Map AI Chat WebTool for use with MP and/or QGC AI Chat Integration with all Web Tools Gazebo Plug-in Model of a Motor SITL AI Reinforcement Learning Concept Script SITL Test Script for Controls Testing Timeline is here : Jan 27th ~ Feb 11th: organisation applications Mar 24th ~ Apr 8th : student applications May 8th ~ Sep 1st: coding period

7. AP Conference 2025 Registration is now open → Eventbrite Tickets Dates: Fri 5 th to Sun 7 th Sep 2025 Conference held on the flying site - Live demos are highly encouraged! 150 Spaces Available - Expected to be high uptake Huge thanks to