px4-firmware/README.md

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)
• 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
  • Sugnan Prabhu
  • 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
• 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.