Hello,

Is ArduPilot enough powerful and accurate to perform an autonomous landing ?

thanks.

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Well, it depends on what you mean by autonomous landing. If you put ArduPilot into a loiter and the the battery low-voltage cutoff stops the motor, it will gently glide into a pretty nice landing with an EasyStar (we'd done that plenty of times). But if you want it to line up into the wind down the middle of a runway and flare at the last second, no it can't do that. No amateur-grade autopilot can.
Yes I was thinking about landing in the middle of a runway... but it's nice already the capability to perform a "fail safe" land.
Not quite yet, although I know some people are working on it.
Interesting to know !

And for a take off ? I guess it's easier to do ...
Automatic takeoff is easy, but why bother? What's the point?
Just to make a totaly fully autonomous flight from the take off to the landing
Yes, but why? What's the advantage? I know it's cool, but I just can't see why you'd ever want to do that. By the time you've done your preflight setup and put the plane on the runway, you might as well just take off yourself and eliminate the risk of runway bumps and wind-related ground messups in autonomy mode.
you're right ....
For unsafe (slow) hand launches on heavy flying wings I use co-pilot (fly-by-wire) mode as well as rate damping.

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