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Installing Ardupilot and MAVProxy

Video tutorial at https://youtu.be/wlkoq65mM2A

Clone ArduPilot

In home directory:

cd ~
sudo apt install git
git clone https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot.git
cd ardupilot
git checkout Copter-3.6
git submodule update --init --recursive

Install dependencies:

sudo apt install python-matplotlib python-serial python-wxgtk3.0 python-wxtools python-lxml python-scipy python-opencv ccache gawk python-pip python-pexpect

Use pip (Python package installer) to install mavproxy:

sudo pip install future pymavlink MAVProxy

MAVProxy is a fully-functioning GCS for UAV’s. The intent is for a minimalist, portable and extendable GCS for any UAV supporting the MAVLink protocol (such as one using ArduPilot). For more information check out http://ardupilot.github.io/MAVProxy/html/index.html

Open ~/.bashrc for editing:

gedit ~/.bashrc

Add these lines to end of ~/.bashrc (the file open in the text editor):

export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/ardupilot/Tools/autotest
export PATH=/usr/lib/ccache:$PATH

Save and close the text editor.

Reload ~/.bashrc:

. ~/.bashrc

Run SITL (Software In The Loop) once to set params:

cd ~/ardupilot/ArduCopter
sim_vehicle.py -w