MindPX flight stack and autopilot

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MindPX summary

MindPX is a distribution (or distro) of PX4 flight stack under development and maintanence by AirMind LLC. It is also the name of the hardware that the flight stack runs on, i.e., the MindPX autopilot.

Besides of the public edition in binary , MindPX is also offered in open source edition: OpenMindPX. OpenMindPX is totally open source under BSD license.

While fully compatible with PX4, MindPX is focused on improving pilot's experience. Both editions are enhanced with many unique, production level features.

MindPX flight stack has predictable compatibility with PX4 core system, so that developers and pilots can know exactly what they can expect when deploy flight platforms.

MindPX autopilot is set of hardwares that MindPX flight stack runs on. Currently 2 type of autopilots hardwares are available, MindPX-V2 and Mind Racer.

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The Code relationship between MindPX and PX4

This picture described the code relationship between MindPX editions and PX4. MindPX dev team contributes to MindPX edition, and part of the contributions will be submitted to OpenMindPX edition and made open under BSD license. From there these contributions can be further committed to PX4. OpenMindPX also synchronizes codes with PX4 periodically to maintain compatibility.

MindPX editions - PX4 compatibility matrix

The compatibility between MindPX editions and PX4 is predicate-ably maintained by MindPX team. The compatibility defined by MindPX team is shown in below's table.

Full - contains all features
Partial - intersected feature sets

OpenMindPX is fully compatible with PX4, as its feature set is superset of PX4. MindPX may be partially compatible with OpenMindPX/PX4 as their feature sets may be intersected.

The compatibility of each MindPX release will be announced in detail in release notes.

MindPX hardware compatibility

Either MindPX, OpenMindPX or PX4 can run on MindPX autopilot hardwares.