New York, United States
ArduPilot is a software project committed to providing Trusted, Versatile and Open systems for autonomous, unmanned vehicles. The company's slogan "Versatile. Trusted. Open" reflects its core principles.
Trusted: ArduPilot aims to be the most open, tested, and robust system for unmanned autonomous vehicles. It plans to achieve this through rigorous testing and validation regimes for all released software, and by collaborating with manufacturing Partners to ensure high-quality hardware. Furthermore, the company actively engages with relevant external agencies to understand and shape requirements for autonomous systems.
Versatile: ArduPilot aims to enable autonomous behavior in any unmanned vehicle, in any environment. The company documents the current compatible controller hardware, vehicle types, and environmental domains it supports, while also facilitating the addition of new hardware, vehicle types, and environmental domains to its codebase. Additionally, ArduPilot actively pursues the limits of technology.
Open: ArduPilot supports the development and evolution of open-source autonomous technologies and technologies that support autonomy. This is achieved through the provision of publicly available source code, detailed documentation for developers, collaboration with academia, industry, and hobbyists, active assistance to new contributors, and the provision of supported, integrated interfaces into associated hardware and software systems. ArduPilot is also a member project of Software in the Public Interest (www.spi-inc.org).
ArduPilot operates in the Manufacturing and Space industries and is based in the United States. The company's specific founding date, last investment, and investors are not provided.
