Info Developers only! This guide is under active development and not intended for consumers.

This guide describes how to work inside the PX4 system architecture. It enables developers to:

• Get a minimum developer setup.
• Understand the PX4 System Architecture and learn how to modify the flight stack and middleware.
• Build and deploy PX4 on Intel® Aero Ready to Fly Drone, Qualcomm Snapdragon Flight, Pixhawk, Pixfalcon and many more autopilots.

This guide is maintained using GitBook. A local copy can be installed by following the official instructions. Before calling gitbook serve make sure to have all the plugins installed.

We have recently started adding translated versions of this guide! You can access these by clicking the language-switcher icon:

Tip If you would like to contribute to our translations, there is information on how to get started here.

The PX4 Development Guide is available under CC BY 4.0 license. See our Github Repository for more details.