The PX4 flight stack is part of the Dronecode platform, an end-to-end solution for building and managing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (AUV).

The platform has several parts:

• PX4 Flight Stack: The flight control system (autopilot).
• MAVLink: A highly efficient, lightweight and blazing fast robotics communication toolkit.
• QGroundControl: Modern, mobile and desktop user interface to configure the system and execute flights.

A number of other projects work with the platform including: DroneKit, ROS, FastRTPS, AirSim, Gazebo, and RViz (to name a few).

Building a drone requires more than just flight controls — it requires vision and GPS based navigation, obstacle avoidance and path planning. The PX4 architecture is designed and ready for more complex environments.

QGroundControl is a state of the art ground control station runs on Android, iOS, Windows, Linux and Mac OS and looks and feels the same on all platforms. Its designed for day-to-day operators but scales to power users.

PX4 supports anything from a multi rotor to a fixed wing, and all mix forms of VTOL planes in-between.