Open software that robots run on, with the license read from each project's license file, whether it is still maintained, and the robots on Robotheca that use it. A reference, not a download site: every entry links to its source.
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ArduPilot is open-source autopilot software for controlling many vehicle types, including planes, multirotors, helicopters, rovers, boats and submarines, in development since 2010.
A cross-platform configuration and management app for the Betaflight flight control system, used to set up aircraft such as quadcopters, hexacopters, octocopters and fixed-wing planes.
Free, open-source flight control firmware that runs on drone flight controllers, for racing, freestyle, cinematic, long-range, micro and wing craft.
A long-range packet radio link that runs over raw WiFi radio, carrying UDP-style data such as video, MAVLink telemetry, and IP traffic between a drone and a ground station.
INAV is open-source flight controller firmware for multirotors, fixed-wing aircraft and other vehicles, adding navigation features like position hold and return to home.
Mission Planner is a Windows ground control station for ArduPilot-based drones and vehicles, used to plan missions, configure and monitor them. It also runs on Linux (via Mono) and Android.
MAVSDK is a set of cross-platform libraries giving a high-level API to MAVLink, the messaging protocol used to communicate with drones and other vehicles.
AM32 is open firmware for brushless motor speed controllers (ESCs) built on ARM STM32-family microcontrollers, aimed at multirotor flight and crawlers.
ROS 2 interface package holding message and service definitions mirrored from PX4 Autopilot's uORB topics, so ROS 2 nodes can exchange data with PX4 firmware.
XTDrone is a simulation platform for drones and other unmanned systems, built on PX4, ROS and Gazebo, so algorithms tested in it can be deployed to real vehicles.
EdgeTX is open-source firmware for R/C radio transmitters, developed by the hobby community as the successor line to OpenTX.
A minimalist Gymnasium-compatible quadcopter simulation environment built on PyBullet physics, for control and reinforcement learning research with multiple drones.
MAVLink is a lightweight, header-only message library for communication between drones and ground control stations, built from XML message-set specifications called dialects.
ExpressLRS is an open source radio control link built on Semtech SX127x/SX1280 LoRa hardware with an Espressif or STM32 processor, aimed at FPV racing.
MAVProxy is a Python ground station for controlling MAVLink-based vehicles such as drones. It was developed as part of the CanberraUAV OBC team entry.
Aerostack2 is a ROS 2 framework for building autonomous systems made of multiple aerial robots, designed to be modular and independent of the specific aerial platform.
A Python library for communicating with and controlling Crazyflie quadcopters through Python scripts. It also serves as the communication backend for the cfclient application.
A ROS 2 software stack for controlling Bitcraze Crazyflie multirotor robots, including swarms of them.
A framework on NVIDIA Isaac Sim for simulating multirotor vehicle dynamics, with interfaces for PX4 and ArduPilot and a custom Python control interface.
A GPU-accelerated physics simulator for training aerial robots such as multirotors to fly and navigate cluttered environments with learning-based methods, built on NVIDIA Isaac Gym.
ESP-Drone is an open-source quadcopter flight controller built on ESP32-series Wi-Fi chips, controlled from a phone app or gamepad. It targets STEM education and is ported from Crazyflie.
Bluejay is open source digital ESC firmware for controlling brushless motors in multirotors, a successor to BLHeli_S. It targets ESCs with Busy Bee MCUs.
VRX is a Gazebo-based simulation environment for unmanned surface vehicles in marine settings, with arenas and tasks modeled on RobotX competitions and a description of the WAM-V platform.
Flight software, simulator and tools for NASA's Astrobee free-flying robots, which operate inside the International Space Station. Built mainly in C++ on ROS.
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