ArcForge is the operational lifecycle platform for autonomous systems. Discover hardware, model systems, rehearse missions, deploy to the edge, operate in the field, replay outcomes, and improve continuously — one workflow across air, ground, simulation, and swarm.
FCU-only support is live. Connect a flight controller and get the full operator workflow — energy, navigation, estimator, link, and geometry awareness — with nothing but the autopilot. Capability tiers expand automatically as ArcForge detects companion compute, perception payloads, and additional hardware.
Modules exist underneath — ArcFlight, ArcGround, ArcSim, ArcSwarm — but the operator works in verbs. You don't launch a module. You open your system, and ArcForge presents the right surface for what you're doing.
Connect a vehicle and ArcForge maps it — every device, every ROS node, every topic, wired together exactly as they actually run. Zero manual configuration.
Compose a vehicle from a parts catalog, reconcile the design against detected hardware, and know before you build whether it will work.
ArcSim is the rehearsal layer — three live modes plus replay, all on the same recorder format as live operations. Test the mission before the mission.
Air mode runs actual ArduPilot in SITL. Ground mode drives the shared rover motion model. Swarm mode flies aerial formations with slot assignment and transition logic. The visuals are deliberately instrument-grade, not photorealistic — the operator experience is the source of truth, and skills built in sim transfer directly to the field.
Inject battery sag, GPS dropout, link loss, telemetry freeze, and more from a scenario library — or author your own in YAML. Location-based weather physics let you rehearse the mission under the conditions you'll actually fly it in. Real recordings become new scenarios with one click.
One action pushes a verified configuration to the edge. Not a checklist you maintain — a gate the platform enforces.
A cockpit engineered from operator cognition backward — live video, telemetry HUD, route planning, and payload control in one surface that adapts to the vehicle you opened.
Every session is recorded in a shared schema across live, sim, air, and ground. Replay shows you what the operator experienced — reconstructed from telemetry, no video storage required.
The loop closes. Real missions become rehearsal scenarios. Patterns across sessions become configuration updates. The platform gets better every time you use it.
"A robotics UI that lies is worse than a robotics UI that fails." ArcForge is built fail-closed — if it can't confirm something is true, it won't tell you it is.
Fourteen reliability engines — telemetry health, link quality, readiness, sensor freshness, secure mode, and more — consolidated into one operator-facing panel. One glance tells you the system state, the worst active issue, and what the platform gated in response.
One risk engine, four moments in time: forecast a mission before takeoff, watch assurance live in flight, replay incidents with correlated timelines, and preview recovery contingencies. Risk lists with honest bands — never a fabricated "78% mission score."
Multi-vehicle situational awareness over real terrain — formations, per-vehicle hazard analysis, elevation awareness. Formation logic and operator UI proven in simulation; live multi-vehicle transport is the active build.
Every capability lands with its verification gates. The discipline is the product.
ArcForge v0.7.0-beta.2 — free during the beta. Simulation works out of the box; connect an ArduPilot vehicle when you're ready.
Beta builds are unsigned. macOS: right-click the app → Open (or System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway). Windows: choose "More info" → "Run anyway" at the SmartScreen prompt.
Start free in simulation. Bring a vehicle when you're ready — even if it's just a flight controller.