PX4 autopilot

PX4 AutoPilot
Developer(s) Px4 Development Team and Community
Initial release March 2012
Repository https://github.com/PX4/Firmware
Written in C++
Operating system NuttX, ROS
License BSD
Website http://px4.io

ArduPilot is an open source, unmanned vehicle Autopilot Software Suite,Low cost and availability enable hobbyist use in small remotely piloted aircraft. The project PixHawk(Not Px4 Autopilot) started in 2009[1] as a Hardware platform for Ardupilot and is being further developed and used at Computer Vision and Geometry Lab of ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) and supported by the Autonomous Systems Lab and the Automatic Control Laboratory. The First vesrion of PX4 Autopilot was released in 2012[2].

OnyxStar XENA-8F coax foldable drone from AltiGator with Pixhawk electronic

Overview

An autopilot allows a remotely piloted aircraft to be flown out of sight. All hardware and software is open-source and freely available to anyone under a BSD license. Free software autopilots provide more flexible hardware and software. Users can modify the autopilot based on their own special requirements.

The PX4 Auto pilot was developed to support Pixhawk flight controller later they added support for few more hardware boards.

The open-source software suite contains everything to let airborne system fly including

  • QGroundControl[3] and MAVLink Micro Air Vehicle Communication Protocol[4]
  • 2D/3D aerial maps (with Google Earth support)
  • Drag-and-drop waypoints

Other open-source robotics projects similar to PX4 include:

See also

References

  1. ↑ pixhawk Project
  2. ↑ "Introducing the PX4 autopilot system". diydrones.com. Retrieved 2018-09-30.
  3. ↑ QGroundControl
  4. ↑ MAVLink
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