DISCONTINUATION OF PROJECT

This project will no longer be maintained by Intel. Intel has ceased development and contributions including, but not limited to, maintenance, bug fixes, new releases, or updates, to this project. Intel no longer accepts patches to this project.

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

• Developer Guide
  • Build instructions
  • Guide for Contributions

Maintenance Team

• Project / Founder - Lorenz Meier
  • Dev Call - Ramon Roche
• Communication Architecture
  • Beat Kueng
  • Julian Oes
• UI / UX
  • Donald Gagne
  • Gus Grubba
• Multicopter Flight Control
  • Dennis Mannhart
  • Matthias Grob
• VTOL Flight Control
  • Daniel Agar
  • Mathieu Bresciani
  • Sander Smeets
  • Roman Bapst
  • Andreas Antener
• Fixed Wing Flight Control
  • Daniel Agar
  • Paul Riseborough
• Racers - Matthias Grob
• OS / drivers - David Sidrane
• UAVCAN / Industrial - Pavel Kirienko
• State Estimation - James Goppert, Paul Riseborough
• Vision based navigation
  • Christoph Tobler
  • Mohammed Kabir
• Obstacle Avoidance - Vilhjalmur Vilhjalmsson
• Snapdragon
  • Christoph Tobler
  • Mark Charlebois
• Intel Aero
  • Lucas De Marchi
  • José Roberto de Souza
• 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
  • Pixhawk
  • Pixhawk Mini
  • Pixfalcon
• 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.