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MAVROS

  • Software
  • Drones and boats
  • Driver or SDK

MAVROS is a bridge that exposes MAVLink autopilots such as PX4 and ArduPilot as ROS 2 topics, services and parameters, so drones can be programmed like other robots.

Source on GitHub: github.com/mavlink/mavros (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit 2d3f4db (opens in a new tab).

Licenses

Code
BSD-3-Clause (opens in a new tab) OR GPL-3.0-only (opens in a new tab) OR LGPL-3.0-only (opens in a new tab)

Read by Robotheca from LICENSE-BSD.txt (opens in a new tab) (BSD-3-Clause), LICENSE-GPLv3.txt (opens in a new tab) (GPL-3.0-only), LICENSE-LGPLv3.txt (opens in a new tab) (LGPL-3.0-only) and LICENSE.md (opens in a new tab) at commit 2d3f4db (opens in a new tab), on 30 Oct 2026. A license text Robotheca's reader does not know: a person at Robotheca set it on 5 Nov 2026.

Commercial use
Yes

What it does: Robotheca's summary

  • Streams autopilot telemetry such as IMU, GPS, attitude and battery as standard ROS 2 topics.
  • Accepts commands like arm/disarm, takeoff, land, mode changes and mission or geofence uploads via ROS 2 services.
  • Can route traffic between a ground station, the flight controller and several ROS processes over one link.
  • Uses a plugin architecture so each MAVLink message can be translated, and new behaviour can be added without changing the core.
  • Supports USB/serial, UDP, TCP and shared UAS bus transports; the libmavconn library can also be used outside ROS.
  • Ships a core package, optional extras, message interfaces and example scripts for task control and waypoint missions.

Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit 5c68b90.

Getting started

Difficulty
Intermediate

Maintenance

Status
Active: a commit in the last 90 days
Newest commit
24 Oct 2026 on ros2
Latest release
Release 2.16.0 (27 Sept 2026)

Checked on GitHub on 30 Oct 2026.

Links

Robots that can run it

No robot on Robotheca is linked to it yet. Links come from a robot's robot.yaml, from its dependency files read as text, or from Robotheca's editors.

Robotheca lists software as a reference: nothing is hosted or run here, and every fact links to where it was read.