DroneKit makes it easy to create custom applications to control any vehicle powered by MAVLink. Best of all, it is open sourced and free for everyone to use.

Getting Started This topic explains how to download and install DroneKit-LA and how to perform some basic analysis operations.

DroneKit Log Analyzer documentation! DroneKit Log Analyzer (DroneKit-LA) is a powerful open source static analyzer for ArduPilot logs.

DroneKit-LA is a compelling alternative to LogAnalyzer.py. The key advantages of DroneKit-LA are that it is much faster and more memory efficient, works on additional log formats (tlog), supports more …

The vehicle type is normally automatically detected by dronekit-la from the log. Sometimes the log does not contain sufficient information to make this determination.

Selecting analyzers All available analysers are run by default. You can list them using the -l flag. At time of writing (DroneKit-LA 0.3) the set is:

After installing the toolchain, first run Doxygen from the root of your clone of dronekit-la and then navigate to /docs to build the documentation:

DroneKit-LA is built in the same way on all platforms; by cloning the repository and then calling make in its root directory. The only differences are in the dependencies required to build on each platform.

The /vagrant directory maps to the location of the Vagrantfile in the host OS (in this case /dronekit-la directory on your host computer). This is the same location where the dronekit-la executable will be …

Command Line Reference The tool outputs a brief command line summary when you enter dronekit-la or dronekit-la -h on a command prompt.