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[ ArduPlane · MAVLink 2 ]

Windows · macOS

Anvil

The Anvil window: the aircraft in yellow brackets over a satellite map of a lake shore, its mission list at left, system rows and the autopilot log at right, and the flight display along the bottom
STRS-01 · AUTO · item 6 of 14A recorded simulator flight (ArduPilot SITL), replayed in Anvil. The numbers are the simulator's.

Anvil

The flat top of a storm cloud

One dark screen for the whole flight: watch it, plan it, check the sky, then take control. Built around Stratus-1, and it flies any ArduPlane.

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Quiet when it's right.
Loud when it's not.

  1. GPS10 satsNormal: dim, an empty square. Nothing to look at.
  2. BATTlowCaution: orange, never brand yellow.
  3. EKFno solutionWarning: red, blinks three times, a card over the map.
  4. ASPDnot fittedNo data: greyed, a dashed square. Never a frozen number.

What it does

Tested against ArduPlane in simulation

01 / 05

Watch first

Anvil connects watching and sends no commands. Take control is one yellow button, and every command after it asks you first.

Anvil with the GPS row red at the top of the systems list and one warning counted in the top bar

System

Version 0.1. In development.

Runs on

Your laptop

Desktop
Windows and macOS
Maps
Satellite, streets, USGS topo, VFR sectional
Offline
Save an area's tiles before you go
Talks to

ArduPlane

Protocol
MAVLink 2
Links
SiK radio (serial), UDP, TCP
Files
Mission Planner and QGC .waypoints
Holds to

Safety rules

Control
Watching until you take it
Uploads
Read back and compared, item by item
Commands
Each one tested in simulation first
Anvil over a grey USGS topographic map with lidar shading, the aircraft flying a dashed survey route

Where it stands

Anvil hasn't flown a real aircraft yet. Everything on this page ran against ArduPlane in simulation. It earns the field one step at a time, with Mission Planner connected the whole way.

  1. 01WatchRead-only telemetry, map and alerts. Done in simulation.
  2. 02CommandModes, arm, mission and fence upload, fly here. Built, being tested in simulation.
  3. 03ShadowWatches real flights beside Mission Planner.
  4. 04PrimaryFlies the missions, Mission Planner as backup.

Get Anvil

Not released yet