Mission Planner Overview

Mission Planner is a software application that is used to operate and control ArduPilot, an open-source autopilot project. ArduPilot is a widely used autopilot system that is used in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and other autonomous systems. Mission Planner is a ground station application that is used to communicate with the autopilot system and includes features such as GPS waypoint navigation, a flight data recorder, and real-time telemetry data. The purpose of this page is to provide information about the history and background of the mission planner application and to help users navigate this website to find the information they need.

What is Mission Planner?

Mission Planner is a ground control station compatible with Windows only. It can be used as a configuration utility or as a dynamic control supplement for your autonomous vehicle. Here are just a few things you can do with a mission planner:

• Load firmware (software) into the autopilot board that controls your
  vehicle.

• Setup, configure, and tune your vehicle for the optimum vehicle.

• Plan save and load autonomous missions into your autopilot with a
  simple point-and-click way-point entry on Google or other maps

• Download and analyze mission logs created by your autopilot.

• Interface with a PC flight simulator to create a full hardware-in-
  the-loop UAV simulator.

History

Mission Planner is a free, open-source, community-supported application developed by Michael Oborne for the open-source APM autopilot project.

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