DroneCode: A Decade of Open Source Autonomy
summary
PX4 and the DroneCode stack claim a decade of production use with 13,000 contributors across 100+ repos and nearly 16 million lines of code, running on RTOS-based FMUs and companion computers (Jetson, Qualcomm RB5, ARM, experimental RISC‑V). The ecosystem wires PX4 to mission computers via ROS 2 via micro‑DDS bridge and MAVLink/MAVSDK, powers swarms (1000+ light‑show drones), rovers, underwater vehicles and even spacecraft, and ships with QGroundControl, MapSDK (gRPC) and Gazebo simulation.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00DroneCode and PX4 intro
- 3:11Products powered by DroneCode
- 11:08DroneCode software stack
- 20:41PX4 autopilot architecture
- 26:56MapLink and QGroundControl
- 31:52PX4 latest release
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