# PX4/PX4-Autopilot

> Open-source autopilot stack for drones and unmanned vehicles: multirotors, fixed-wing, VTOL and rovers. Runs on NuttX, Linux and macOS, with MAVLink and ROS 2 support.

- Magnitude: 1.3 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 12,736 total · +0 stars on 2026-10-04 (UTC), ≈ 2 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Hardware, IoT & robotics · Language: C++ · License: BSD-3-Clause · Created: 2012-08-04 · Last push: 2026-10-04
- GitHub: https://github.com/PX4/PX4-Autopilot · Homepage: https://px4.io · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/PX4/PX4-Autopilot

## Useful for

- Run PX4 SITL simulation in Docker and fly in QGroundControl
- Build autopilot firmware from source for a specific Pixhawk board
- Connect ROS 2 to PX4 via DDS for autonomous navigation

## Why it’s here

- 0 stars so far today, about 1 expected by the end of the day.
- About 8 forks a day — people are taking the code.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 16,112
- Issues and pull requests: 28,937
- Watchers: 480
- Average over the last week: 5 per day
- Usual pace: 7 per day
- Latest release: v1.18.0-rc1 (2026-09-10)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-04 … 2026-11-02: 0, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None

## Magnitude by day, last 14 days

09-21 2.0, 09-22 1.8, 09-23 1.5, 09-24 1.8, 09-25 1.8, 09-26 1.7, 09-27 1.5, 09-28 1.5, 09-29 1.5, 09-30 1.6, 10-01 1.6, 10-02 1.7, 10-03 1.7, 10-04 1.5

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-04 11:02 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.