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Vehicle Types & Setup

PX4 supports numerous types of vehicles, including different configurations of multicopters, planes, VTOL vehicles, ground vehicles, and so on.

This section explains how to assemble, configure, and tune PX4-based autopilot systems for each type (much of this setup is common to all types).

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Basic Concepts > Drone Types provides high level information about the types of vehicles and the use cases for which they are best suited.

Supported Vehicles

The frame types that have a maintainer and are well tested and supported are:

Experimental Vehicles

Experimental frames are those vehicle types that:

  • Do not have a maintainer.
  • Are not regularly tested by the core development team.
  • May not be tested in CI.
  • May lack features required for production-ready vehicles.
  • May not support some common vehicle configurations for the vehicle type.

The following vehicle types are considered experimental:

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Maintainer volunteers, contribution of new features, new frame configurations, or other improvements would all be very welcome!

Other Vehicles

The complete set of supported vehicle types and their configurations can be found in the Airframes Reference.