PX4 Pro Drone Autopilot
This repository holds the PX4 Pro flight control solution for drones, with the main applications located in the src/modules directory. It also contains the PX4 Drone Middleware Platform, which provides drivers and middleware to run drones.
- Official Website: http://px4.io (License: BSD 3-clause, LICENSE.md)
- Supported airframes:
- Multicopters
- Fixed wing
- VTOL
- many more experimental types (Rovers, Blimps, Boats, Submarines, etc)
- Releases: Downloads
Please refer to the user documentation and user forum for flying drones with the PX4 flight stack.
Weekly Dev Call
The PX4 Dev Team syncs up on a weekly dev call.
- Wednesday 17:00 Central European Time, 11:00 Eastern Time, 08:00 Pacific Standard Time
- Uber conference (dial-in or web client)
- The agenda is announced in advance on the PX4 Discuss
- Issues and PRs may be labelled devcall to flag them for discussion
Developers
Maintenance Team
- Project / Founder - Lorenz Meier
- Communication Architecture
- UI / UX
- Multicopter Flight Control
- VTOL Flight Control
- Fixed Wing Flight Control
- Racers - Matthias Grob
- OS / drivers - David Sidrane
- UAVCAN / Industrial - Pavel Kirienko
- State Estimation - James Goppert, Paul Riseborough
- Vision based navigation
- Obstacle Avoidance - Vilhjalmur Vilhjalmsson
- Snapdragon
- Intel Aero
- Raspberry Pi / Navio - Beat Kueng
- Parrot Bebop - Michael Schaeuble
- Airmind MindPX / MindRacer - Henry Zhang
- RTPS/ROS2 Interface - Vicente Monge
Supported Hardware
This repository contains code supporting these boards:
- Snapdragon Flight
- Intel Aero
- Raspberry PI with Navio 2
- Parrot Bebop 2
- FMUv1.x
- FMUv2.x
- FMUv3.x Pixhawk 2
- FMUv4.x
- Pixracer
- Pixhawk 3 Pro
- FMUv5.x (ARM Cortex M7, future Pixhawk)
- STM32F4Discovery (basic support) Tutorial
- Gumstix AeroCore (v1 and v2)
- Airmind MindPX V2.8
- Airmind MindRacer V1.2
- Bitcraze Crazyflie 2.0
Project Milestones
The PX4 software and Pixhawk hardware (which has been designed for it) has been created in 2011 by Lorenz Meier.