Top 9 ardupilot Open-Source Projects

ardupilot

72 9,871 10.0 C++

ArduPlane, ArduCopter, ArduRover, ArduSub source

Project mention: Reading Sensor Data From Flight Controller Mateksys F405-TE - Integrated IMU - No Documentation | /r/stm32f4 | 2023-12-07

qgroundcontrol

3 2,922 9.8 C++

Cross-platform ground control station for drones (Android, iOS, Mac OS, Linux, Windows)

Project mention: DJI Virtual Flight (iOS) has been broken for five months | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-09-09

For Disco you're in luck, there are some really decent ardupilot-based projects out there[1]. Plus, unlike the Bebop camera which is inaccessible via the shell (you can only use the Parrot SDK), the Disco camera can be commanded to stream/record with a few simple commands, and even bound to controller inputs.
A caveat with the controller: it needs to have custom firmware[2] to get it communicating with ardupilot, and to get the firmware onto the controller you need telnet/adb into it via SkyController→usb→ethernet→usb→Laptop adaptor(s).
For a ground control system (GCS), there's three to choose from: Mission Planner, APM Planner, and QGroundControl[3] (ignore the rest, use this one).
For configuring the drone, mission planner is pretty good... but you can also just use MavProxy[4] which is a fantastic commandline program that all the GCSes use in some way, and can even be installed in Termux/Android.
1: https://github.com/uavpal/disco4g/
2: https://github.com/ArduPilot/dema-rc/
3: https://github.com/mavlink/qgroundcontrol
4: https://github.com/ArduPilot/MAVProxy

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MissionPlanner

7 1,629 9.1 C#

Mission Planner Ground Control Station for ArduPilot (c# .net)
DroneBridge

5 685 0.0 C

DroneBridge is a system based on the WifiBroadcast approach. A bidirectional digital radio link between two endpoints is established using standard WiFi hardware and a custom protocol. DroneBridge is optimized for use in UAV applications and is a complete system. It is intended be a real alternative to other similar systems, such as DJI Lightbridge or OcuSync.
iq_tutorials

3 407 0.9
ESP32

4 316 8.1 C

DroneBridge for ESP32. A transparent short range wifi based telemetry (serial to WiFi) link. Support for MAVLink, MSP, LTM (iNAV) or any other protocol
Autonomous-Ai-drone-scripts

1 264 2.6 Python

State of the art autonomous navigation scripts using Ai, Computer Vision, Lidar and GPS to control an arducopter based quad copter.
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msp-osd

5 212 6.3 C

MSP DisplayPort OSD
BlueOS

1 115 9.8 Vue

The open source platform for ROV, USV, robotic system operation, development, and expansion.

Project mention: BlueOS, written in the Rust language by Vivo | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-11-04

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).