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PX4 Autopilot
PX4 Autopilot Software
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 underwater vehicles and boats. PX4 provides a standard to deliver drone hardware support and software stack, allowing an ecosystem to build and maintain hardware and software in a scalable way. Drone development is complicated, and how to get started can be daunting and hard to navigate. These tutorials and resources provide a walkthrough of the basics of PX4. PX4 is highly portable, OS-independent and supports Linux, NuttX and MacOS out of the box. The PX4 User Guide explains how to assemble supported vehicles and fly drones with PX4. See the forum and chat if you need help! -
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GAAS
Autonomous aviation intelligence software for drones and VTOL
GAAS (Generalized Autonomy Aviation System) is an open source software platform for autonomous drones and VTOLs. GAAS was built to provide a common infrastructure for computer-vision based drone intelligence. In the long term, GAAS aims to accelerate the coming of autonomous VTOLs. Being a BSD-licensed product, GAAS makes it easy for enterprises, researches, and drone enthusiasts to modify the code to suit specific use cases. Our long-term vision is to implement GAAS in autonomous passenger carrying VTOLs (or "flying cars"). The first step of this vision is to make Unmanned Aerial Vehicles truly "unmanned", and thus make drones ubiquitous. We currently support manned and unmanned multi-rotor drones and helicopters. Our next step is to support VTOLs and eVTOLs. -
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KIPRCopter
A Quadrotor Aerial Robot platform for K-12 Education.
The AR Drone is a quadrotor helicopter sold by Parrot. Parrot sells the drone as a toy controlled via a wireless device such as Ipods, Ipads, or Android based devices. Parrot advertises the toy as an advance in gaming because the control devices will project a virtual reality allowing users to play with their physical drone with an enhanced version on their controller where bullets or hot air balloons must be avoided in the virtual world. KIPR, KISS Institute for Practical Robotics is an organization that facilitates the learning of robotics programming in middle and high school students to peak an interest in computer science. To do this they hold competitions around the world called botball where students program autonomous land robots to perform various sets of tasks. KIPR, now wants to expand and leave the ground by integrating flying robots (the AR Drone) into the tasks for added interest, fun, and challenge for students. -
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ArduPilot
ArduPlane, ArduCopter, ArduRover, ArduSub source
ArduPilot is an open-source autopilot platform for autonomous and remotely operated vehicles. It supports airplanes, multicopters, helicopters, rovers, boats, submarines, balance bots, and other specialized vehicle types. Separate vehicle stacks include ArduPlane, ArduCopter, Rover, ArduSub, and Antenna Tracker. The software provides manual-assisted modes as well as fully autonomous missions with waypoint navigation and scripted behavior. Advanced failsafes can react to lost control links, low batteries, positioning problems, and other system failures. MAVLink telemetry connects vehicles with ground stations and companion computers for configuration, monitoring, and mission control. Extensive logging, sensor integration, camera control, scripting, and hardware support make it suitable for hobby, research, and commercial robotics. -
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CarlaAir
Fly Drones Inside a CARLA World
CarlaAir is an open-source robotics simulator that combines CARLA urban driving with multirotor drone flight inside one Unreal Engine environment. It is designed for research involving coordinated aerial and ground autonomous systems. Vehicles, pedestrians, drones, weather, and sensor streams can coexist within the same simulated world. Users can access both CARLA and AirSim-style Python APIs to control different agents and environments. The platform supports synchronized cameras, lidar, navigation sensors, trajectory recording, and joint air-ground scenarios. ROS 2 examples connect simulated vehicles and drones to external robotics workflows and RViz. Prebuilt packages for Linux and Windows reduce setup effort for researchers studying embodied intelligence and autonomous systems. -
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Drone WayPointer
A ROS package to remotely control the Parrot AR Drone 2.0
"Drone WayPointer" is a ROS package that provides a UI to allow for remote control of the Parrot AR Drone 2.0. It is developed in C++ with qt-ros and the Qt4 Development FrameWork. It is designed to work with the ROS - Fuerte and it uses the the ardrone_autonomy driver (Fuerte-devel Branch). It has so far only been tested on the tum_simulator and not on the actual drone. The main functionalities it provides is camera streams of front or bottom cameras of the drone, button and slider control of the drone XYZ velocities, control using waypoints and waypoint commands, pose estimation using simple dead-reckoning and measurement and image recording functionalities. -
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FASTER
3D Trajectory Planner in Unknown Environments
FASTER is a research-grade 3D trajectory planner for autonomous navigation in unknown environments. It was developed for both aerial robots and ground vehicles that must move safely while new obstacles are discovered. The planner continuously builds safe and unknown-space trajectory segments rather than assuming the environment is fully mapped. Optimization is used to generate dynamically feasible paths while maintaining safety constraints. The project integrates with ROS, Gazebo, MAVROS, mapping components, and the Gurobi optimizer. Simulation examples demonstrate navigation for UAVs and ground robots in cluttered spaces. FASTER was published in IEEE Transactions on Robotics and is primarily intended for robotics research rather than turnkey consumer navigation. -
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Flix
Making an ESP32-based quadcopter from scratch
Flix is an open-source ESP32-based quadcopter project built from general-purpose components for education, research, and experimentation. Its firmware is written in Arduino-style C++ and intentionally kept compact so learners can understand the complete flight-control stack. Communication uses MAVLink over Wi-Fi or ESP-NOW. The drone can be controlled with a USB gamepad, radio controller, or smartphone. A wireless command-line interface supports configuration and analysis without a wired connection. The project also includes a Gazebo simulator that runs the original flight code and a Python library for scripted or automatic flights. Hardware files, assembly instructions, troubleshooting guides, and flight-control documentation make it suitable for hands-on learning. -
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GAAS
GAAS is an open-source program designed for fully autonomous VTOL
GAAS, or Generalized Autonomy Aviation System, is an open-source autonomy framework for drones, VTOL aircraft, and experimental flying-car research. It focuses on robust autonomous navigation using lidar rather than relying primarily on vision. The system includes mapping, HD-map localization, path planning, obstacle handling, and aircraft-control modules. Localization components include NDT and ICP approaches, with GPU acceleration available for selected algorithms. Simulation support integrates lidar, stereo cameras, PX4, Gazebo, and AirSim environments. Its modular C++ architecture allows individual autonomy components to be replaced or extended. The repository targets research rather than production aviation and reflects an older robotics stack centered on Ubuntu 18.04 and ROS Melodic. -
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OpenMVG
open Multiple View Geometry library. Basis for 3D computer vision
openMVG is an open-source C++ library for multiple-view geometry, photogrammetry, and Structure from Motion. It provides an end-to-end framework for reconstructing 3D scenes from collections of ordinary images. Its libraries cover image handling, feature description, feature matching, feature tracking, camera models, triangulation, robust estimation, and geometric solvers. Command-line binaries handle individual reconstruction stages that can be combined into complete pipelines. Reconstructed scenes can be exported to other multi-view stereo tools for dense point clouds and textured meshes. The project emphasizes readable, maintainable implementations backed by tests and examples. It runs on Linux, macOS, Windows, Android, and iOS. -
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QGroundControl
Cross-platform ground control station for drones
QGroundControl is a cross-platform ground control station for MAVLink-enabled drones and autonomous vehicles. It provides full setup, configuration, flight control, and mission planning for platforms including PX4 and ArduPilot. Mission tools can create waypoint, survey, and structure-scan routes. The live flight view combines maps, instruments, vehicle position, telemetry, and optional video streams. Guided setup tools cover sensors, radios, flight modes, power systems, and vehicle parameters. Multiple vehicles can be connected and monitored from the same application. Additional tools include log downloading, geotagging, MAVLink inspection, consoles, and joystick control across desktop and mobile systems. -
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SkyShit FPV for Anafi, Bebop 2 & Disco
SkyShit FPV Suite for Parrot Drone (Anafi, Bebop 2 & Disco)
SkyShit Booster Mod Custom FPV Suite for Anafi, Bebop 2 & Disco drones SkyShit FPV Suite is a MacOS application that runs on Apple Computer. Allowing users to receive FPV live feed from all Parrot drones (Anafi, Bebop 2 and Disco) to be displayed on multiple big LCD screens on Mac computer (Please see SSFPV_INSTALL_User_Manual.pdf for supported configurations). SSFPV Suite makes use to the Parrot SDK engine and the supreme graphics performance of modern Mac computer. As a result. The FPV suite becomes the lowest latency and the most responsive FPV applications to all Parrot drones on this planet. The FPV performance of this suite outperforms all iOS and Android FPV flight applications and supports to both SkyController 2 and SkyController 3 thru USB tethering. If you have several 46' LCD TV units connected to a Mac via HDMI or thunderbolt interfaces. This application is a game changer for you and your colleague to enjoy the most luxurious FPV experience on Parrot drones ever. -
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dRehmFlight
Teensy/Arduino flight controller & stabilization for small-scale VTOL
dRehmFlight is an Arduino-compatible flight controller created for hobbyists, researchers, and learners building unusual VTOL aircraft. It emphasizes readable, centralized code instead of a large framework spread across many files and classes. The project is designed to teach aircraft stabilization and flight-control concepts while remaining easy to modify. Its primary hardware platform uses a Teensy 4.0 microcontroller and an MPU6050 six-axis IMU. Features include receiver input handling, IMU calibration, ESC calibration, motor arming, and customizable control logic. Because the code is easy to edit in the Arduino ecosystem, experimental aircraft behaviors can be added quickly. The project is intended mainly for education and rapid prototyping rather than commercial flight-control deployment.
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