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PX4 autopilot

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The PX4 autopilot is an open-source system for autonomous aircraft. The project was started in 2009.

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Overview

PX4 supports the following features:

  • Multiple vehicle types, including fixed-wing aircraft, multicopters, helicopters, rovers, boats and underwater vehicles[1]
  • Fully manual, partially assisted and fully autonomous flight modes[2]
  • Integration with position, speed, altitude and rotation sensors[3]
  • Automatic triggering of cameras or external actuators[4]

PX4 is capable of integrating with other autopilot software, such as the QGroundControl ground control station software, via the MAVLink protocol.

PX4 is open-source and available under a BSD-3-Clause license.

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