5 projects
PX4
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.
Contributors
8,865
Organizations
897
Software value
$673M
MAVLink
MAVLink is a very lightweight messaging protocol for communicating with drones (and between onboard drone components).
Contributors
3,810
Organizations
514
Software value
$16M
QGroundControl
QGroundControl provides full flight control and mission planning for any MAVLink enabled drone. Its primary goal is ease of use for professional users and developers. All the code is open-source source, so you can contribute and evolve it as you want.
Contributors
2,664
Organizations
404
Software value
$43M
Dronecode Project, Inc.
The Dronecode Foundation fosters communities and innovation through open-standards using open-source. Dronecode is a vendor-neutral foundation for open source drone projects. We are a US-based non-profit under the Linux Foundation and provide open source governance, infrastructure, and services to software & hardware projects. We work with developers, end-users, and adopting vendors from around the world.
Contributors
1,813
Organizations
40
Software value
$9.2M
MAVSDK
In order to support multiple programming languages, MAVSDK implements a gRPC server in C++ which allows clients in different programming languages to connect to. The API is defined by the proto IDL (proto files). This architecture allows the clients to be implemented in idiomatic patterns, so using the tooling and syntax expected by end users. For example, the Python library can be installed from PyPi using pip
Contributors
1,067
Organizations
172
Software value
$67M