Mission Planner is a ground station for communicating with autonomous aircraft, vehicles, or boats running Ardupilot firmware.
It’s used to monitor such vehicles, view logs, and create waypoint missions.
This is free and open source software which runs on the Raspberry Pi single-board computer.
Features include:
- Point-and-click waypoint/fence/rally point entry, using Google Maps/Bing/Open street maps/Custom WMS.
- Select mission commands from drop-down menus
- Download mission log files and analyze them
- Configure autopilot settings for your vehicle
- Interface with a PC flight simulator to create a full software-in-the-loop (SITL) UAV simulator.
- Run its own SITL simulation of many frames types for all the ArduPilot vehicles.
Website: ardupilot.org/planner
Support:
Developer: Michael Oborne
License: Open source

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