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home	name text tagline image actions PX4 Autopilot Open-source flight stack for drones and autonomous vehicles. BSD-3 licensed. Vendor neutral. /px4-logo.svg theme text link brand Read the docs /en/index.md theme text link alt Website https://px4.io/ theme text link alt Source code on GitHub https://github.com/PX4/PX4-Autopilot	title details Modular Architecture Built on uORB, a DDS-compatible publish/subscribe middleware. Every module runs as its own thread, fully parallelized and thread safe. Build custom configurations and strip out what you don't need. title details Wide Hardware Support Supports Pixhawk-standard flight controllers and a growing range of boards beyond that standard. DroneCAN peripherals run PX4 firmware in CAN node mode. No vendor lock-in. title details Developer Friendly First-class MAVLink and DDS/ROS 2 integration. Comprehensive SITL simulation, hardware-in-the-loop testing, and log analysis tools. MAVSDK provides a high-level SDK/API for programmatic vehicle interaction. title details Autonomy Ready Extensible architecture for advanced autonomy. External modes, offboard control, and DDS/ROS 2 interfaces provide the building blocks for computer vision, GPS-denied navigation, and custom flight behaviors. title details Proven at Scale Millions of vehicles deployed worldwide across commercial, defense, and research applications. Continuous flight testing validates the codebase across multirotors, fixed-wing, VTOL, helicopters, rovers, and more. title details Permissive License BSD 3-Clause. Use it, modify it, ship it in proprietary products. You only need to include the original copyright notice and license text. title details Interoperability Part of a modular ecosystem. PX4 (autopilot), MAVLink (protocol), QGroundControl (ground station), Pixhawk (hardware standard), MAVSDK (SDK/API), and ROS 2 via DDS or Zenoh. All Dronecode projects, all open source. title details Vendor Neutral Governance Hosted by the Dronecode Foundation under the Linux Foundation. No single company owns the name or controls the roadmap. Community-driven with a weekly open dev call.	false	BSD 3-clause license