Worldwide drone developers conference held in Xiamen

The First ArduPilot Worldwide Drone Developers Conference was held in Xiamen, Fujian province on Oct 22, and attended by more than 50 top foreign drone experts, over 100 drone development engineers and 40 drone enterprises from home and abroad.

ArduPilot is an open source autopilot system that supports multi-copters, traditional helicopters, fixed wing aircraft and rovers. The source code is developed by a large community of professionals and enthusiasts.

The core research and development team of ArduPilot was invited to share their latest R&D achievements and their views on the future of drone.

Jani Hrivinen, developer of ArduCopter platform (a full-featured, open-source multicopter UAV controller platform), introduced the Ardu Pilot Mega (APM) which is a mature autopilot capable of controlling fixed-wing aircraft, multi-rotor helicopters, and traditional helicopters.

Jonathan Challinger, member of ArduPilot's core R&D team, shared his research results on how to apply Ardupilot to rapid delivery in complex airspace.

Michael Oborne, developer of Mission Planner (a full-featured ground station application for the ArduPilot open source autopilot project), introduced drones' survey tasks, real-time location technology, and analysis on video feedback.

All the attendees believe that open source drones are of great importance in the development of the drone market, and the developers of open source can develop more functions for drones by working with their manufacturers.

The conference was organized by Hex Technology Company, the world's leading open source hardware manufacturer together with ArduPilot.