- ArduPilot lets you run scripts on flight controllers those have at least 2MB of flash and 70kB of memory.
- With scripting, advanced autonomy can be achieved without companion computer.
- Of course this limited with computational power of the flight controller.
- The parameter SCR_ENABLE should be 1.
- Scripts are written in LUA programming language and in a form of *.lua files.
- Script files should be located inside
scripts/folder where the simulation binary located. - In real world case, script files should be located
APM/scripts/of the SD card attached to flight controller. - You can do:
- Multiple scripts can be run at once.
- Monitor the vehicle.
- Control the vehicle.
- Scripts run at low priority in the system.
- If any script crashes:
- All running scripts will be terminated.
- The scripting engine will restart.
- Reload all scripts from the disk.
- This is allowed to happen at all flight stages, even while the vehicle is armed and flying.
- All the LUA bindings can be found in LUA Docs.
- If the
docs.luais in the same directory, some IDEs like PyCharm gives autocompletion and suggestions thanks toLuaCheckplugin.