About Us

Our purpose is to build an advanced, accessible pathfollowing solution for FTC that eliminates common barriers to entry by delivering easy to use, top-tier autonomous performance alongside clear documentation.

What are the benefits?

• Easy to understand documentation that has both basic and advanced concepts
• An intuitive path generation API that gets its power from simplicity and flexibility with other libraries and tools
• B-Spline based path following for smooth, performant, and customizable trajectories
• Major loop time optimizations during Autonomous and TeleOp
• OnBot Java environment support
• Mostly automatic tuning
• Powerful visualizer with simulation, global poses, and code generation for easy debugging and development
• Clean and self documenting code with a focus on readability and education
• Plans for updates in the future to add features such as a command based framework, more advanced path following algorithms, and more!

When is this being released?

Apex Pathing is currently in the development and is not officially released. We’re aiming to publish the first version of Apex Pathing in late July, giving teams enough time to experiment and prepare before the 2026-2027 FTC BIOBUZZ season begins. Join our Discord server  to receive updates about Apex releases and chat with our developers and testers!

How can I test it out?

Check out the installation guide to get Apex Pathing up and running. This is mainly for developers and testers, but if you want to try it out, feel free to do so! We would love to hear your feedback and suggestions.

Our Contributors

This project wouldn’t be possible without all of our developers and testers!

Founders

• Xander Haemel from 31616 404 Not Found (Head of Apex, docs/swerve kinematics lead)
• Dylan B. from 18597 RoboClovers - Delta (Programming and user experience lead)
• Sohum Arora from 22985 Paraducks (Path following lead)

Project Leads

• Samarth Iyer from 25246 UPA Golden Eagles (Visualizer)
• Joel, an alumni of 7842 Browncoats (Math, tank kinematics, path following lead)
• Michael Poling IV from 21721 RoboClovers - Atlas (Logistics and branding)

Developers

• Achyut Sharma from 32329 CoZmicMonkeyZ
• Atharv Gurnani from 13085 Bionic Dutch
• JB from 14708 Short Circuits
• Topher Fontana, an Alumni of 23571 JEdison Knights
• Xander Martinez from 6183 Triple Paradox

Testers

• Kuek Kuek from 20077 The Indubitables
• MOE 365

Branding

Our branding was designed by

• Michael Poling IV, a member of 21721 RoboClovers - Atlas
• Dylan B., a member of 18597 RoboClovers - Delta

The Apex red color is #C00000, all greys are #111111, #222222, #333333, etc.