Px4

The Professional Autopilot. PX4 powers any vehicle from racing and cargo drones through to ground vehicles. The powerful and uniquely flexible core of the Dronecode Platform is open-source, and available for you to use and customise as needed.

PX4 is used in a wide range of use-cases, from consumer drones to industrial applications. It is also the leading research platform for drones and has been successfully applied to under water vehicles and boats.

• PX4 Flight Core Presentation

Components

• Open Source

• Full stack

  • Flight Stack

  • Middleware

  • ESC firmware

  • Bootloader

  • Operating System

    • NuttX OS

• Flexible

• World Class Devs

• Membership++

• Community

Technology

Complete Autopilot Solution

• PX4 Flight Stack: The flight control system (autopilot).

• MAVLink: A highly efficient, lightweight and blazing fast robotics communication toolkit.
• QGroundControl: Modern, mobile and desktop user interface to configure the system and execute flights.

Built for Aerial Robotics

• Optical Flow and Visual Inertial Odometry

• Avoidance

• Planning

Great User Experience

QGroundControl is a state of the art ground control station

Simulation

• AirSim

• ROS Gazebo Simulator

• jMAVSim

• X-Plane

• DroneKit-SITL

• SITL Simulator (Software in the Loop)

• Hardware In The Loop (HITL) simulation

Hardware

• Flight Controllers

  • Pixhawk-compatible flight controllers, including the 3DR Pixhawk and Pixhawk Mini

  • Qualcomm Snapdragon Flight

  • Intel® Aero Ready to Fly Drone

• SIK Telemetry Radio

  • HopeRF HM-TRP

  • 3DR radio

  • RFD900 ultra long range radio

• SAPOG ESC

• Optical Flow Sensor

Broad Airframe Support

PX4 supports anything from a multi rotor to a fixed wing, and all mix forms of VTOL planes in-between.

Links

• PX4 Pro Drone Autopilot Homepage
• PX4 User Guide
• PX4 Development Guide
• PX4 Pro Drone Autopilot Wikipedia
• PX4 Pro Drone Autopilot Github Source code
• PX4 Seminar
• PX4 Github

Installation, Scripting Levels

1. https://github.com/PX4/Devguide/blob/master/build_scripts/ubuntu_sim_common_deps.sh
2. https://github.com/PX4/Devguide/blob/master/build_scripts/ubuntu_sim.sh
3. https://github.com/PX4/Devguide/blob/master/build_scripts/ubuntu_sim_nuttx.sh