5 projects
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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
9,846
Organizations
929
Software value
$622M
MAVLink
MAVLink is a very lightweight messaging protocol for communicating with drones (and between onboard drone components).
Contributors
4,879
Organizations
540
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
2,660
Organizations
416
Software value
$44M
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
1,994
Organizations
42
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
1,075
Organizations
181
Software value
$61M