MRS UAV System

Software
Drones and boats
Framework

A ROS 2 control, state estimation, mapping and planning system for multirotor drones, built by the MRS group at the Czech Technical University in Prague for research and education.

Made by Multi-robot Systems (MRS) group at Czech Technical University in Prague, Czechia (checked on github.com/ctu-mrs (opens in a new tab)).

Source on GitHub: github.com/ctu-mrs/mrs_uav_system (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit 3340bfe (opens in a new tab).

Licenses

Code: BSD-3-Clause (opens in a new tab)
Read by Robotheca from LICENSE (opens in a new tab) (BSD-3-Clause) at commit 3340bfe (opens in a new tab), on 16 Oct 2026.
Commercial use: Yes

What it does

Built on ROS 2 Jazzy and meant to run entirely onboard a companion computer.
Controls underactuated multirotor helicopters.
Includes control, state estimation, mapping, and planning pipelines.
Offers simulators including MRS Multirotor, FlightForge, and Gazebo, plus PX4 and DJI Tello hardware API plugins.
Provides optional modules such as Octomap mapping and planning, OpenVINS and PointLIO state estimation, and example packages.
Installed as ROS packages from the MRS PPA, with a Docker image also available.

Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit 3340bfe.

Getting started

Difficulty: Advanced
Hardware it needs, as the project states it: It lists Ubuntu-based ROS 2 Jazzy installation and ARM64 and AMD64 support.
How to start: The project's website (opens in a new tab)

Maintenance

Status: Active: a commit in the last 90 days
Newest commit: 3 Aug 2026 on ros2
Latest release: None published on GitHub

Checked on GitHub on 16 Oct 2026.

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.