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Paparazzi UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) is an open-source drone hardware and software project encompassing autopilot systems and ground station software for multicopters/multirotors, fixed-wing, helicopters and hybrid aircraft that was founded in 2003. Paparazzi UAV was designed with autonomous flight as the primary focus and manual flying as the secondary. From the beginning it was designed with portability in mind and the ability to control multiple aircraft within the same system. Paparazzi features a dynamic flight plan system that is defined by mission states and using way points as “variables”. This makes it easy to create very complex fully automated missions without the operators intervention. For more project information, see here.

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General System Overview General overview of the Paparazzi system Getting Started An overview of getting started with Paparazzi FAQ Frequently Asked Questions Downloads Software source code, hardware schematics, etc. User List and Gallery List of users. Photos, Videos, etc. Media, Papers and Links News stories, Scientific publications, Reports, User projects, etc. Contact Us Gitter Chat, Mailinglist Hardware Autopilots Paparazzi supported aircraft control hardware Sensors GPS, IMU, Current, Airspeed, etc. Modems Digital radios for aircraft telemetry and more Dedicated GSC Hardware Hardware used for dedicated ground station computers Payloads Payload Boards Other Hardware Debug Probes / JTAG, USB-UART, Video systems, Antenna Tracker, Connectors and Wiring, ESC, etc. Get Hardware How to get Paparazzi hardware Software Installation Installing and configuring Paparazzi Paparazzi Center Configuring and running Paparazzi Airframe Configuration General firmware setup Fixed-wing Configuration Rotorcraft Configuration Subsystems Modules Add new airborne code in a flexible way Autopilot Generation Design your own autopilot modes Ground Station Ground station use and configuration Simulation Rotorcraft simulator Autonomous Navigation Flight Plans Creating and editing a flight plan Advanced Navigation Routines Descriptions of advanced user created navigation routines Mission Control your aircraft with a mission-oriented interface Flashing Update the autopilot firmware Tuning Flight testing and tuning procedures Logs Log analysis and replay Software Tools Various software tools and additions to Paparazzi Miscellaneous Airframes Example airframes, construction techniques and more Wiki Editing Links to some useful pages on style and syntax Eagle Tips Help using Eagle to view/edit hardware Developer Guide More in depth documentation Contributing How to contribute Student Projects Some past and current Paparazzi based student projects Tutorials Videos, Wiki pages

Latest Stable Release: v5.12_stable Travis CI Download as tarball or checkout the v5.12 branch from git. Releases can be found at https://github.com/paparazzi/paparazzi/releases Paparazzi UAV Blog Secure Pprzlink released The Paparazzi team is proud to announce a release of an encrypted version of pprzlink. The new secure Pprzlink uses a strong and fast cipher ChaCha20 with Poly1305 authenticator. For better security and user convenience, a variation of station-to-station key-exchange protocol is implemented, to allow seamless key-exchange between the UAV and the GCS. Secure Pprzlink … Continue reading Secure Pprzlink released → Michal Podhradsky 2018-03-26 19:26:27 Pilot a super rotorcraft! So far all my results with rotorcraft were in simulation… until now! In this experiment, performed at TU-Delft (thanks Ewoud Smeur!), a team of four rotorcraft behaves as a single unit. The proved stability properties of the whole system allows for applications such as collaborative transportation of objects. If you want to know the mathematical … Continue reading Pilot a super rotorcraft! → Hector Garcia de Marina 2017-12-02 18:59:57 Multi-UAV capabilities Video done at ENAC (Toulouse) showing some capabilities of Paparazzi for controlling multiple fixed-wing aircraft. We have already a wiki entry explaining how to implement the circular formations. Hector Garcia de Marina 2017-08-12 06:33:08 New Paparazzi autopilot Chimera released The ENAC UAV lab is proud to release its latest autopilot board.  Named Chimera, it is based on the latest STM32F7 micro-controller and offers a large connectivity. The design have been made with the ease of use and integration for end-users, especially researchers. With the usual features like IMU and barometer, the Chimera also carries … Continue reading New Paparazzi autopilot Chimera released → Gautier Hattenberger 2017-03-20 00:11:06 First flights of the hybrid vehicle Cyfoam with Chimera board The Cyfoam is a hybrid vehicle developed at ENAC Drone Lab. The aircraft is a foam, with a 3D printed fuselage, version of the composite-made Cyclone. The vehicle is powered by the new autopilot board Chimera! which executes the control algorithms developed by Ewoud from Delft MAV Lab. We are currently aiming at a total autonomous … Continue reading First flights of the hybrid vehicle Cyfoam with Chimera board → Hector Garcia de Marina 2017-03-12 13:09:11 Flying Parrot’s Disco aircraft with Paparazzi The Disco from Parrot is a fixed-wing aircraft designed for FPV with all the feature already available on their Bebop2, plus some extra things, like airspeed sensor, SBUS input and PWM outputs. The autopilot itself is all integrated in a box called C.H.U.C.K. and it allows nice and easy flights with the SkyController2 and the … Continue reading Flying Parrot’s Disco aircraft with Paparazzi → Gautier Hattenberger 2017-02-24 21:40:45 Circle formations of fixed-wing aircraft We have recently developed and tested a formation control algorithm for fixed-wing aircraft in Paparazzi at ENAC. The position of an arbitrary number of vehicles can be controlled in a circular path. In fact, we are not restricting ourselves to circles but to any closed orbit, such as ellipses, thanks to the guidance vector field … Continue reading Circle formations of fixed-wing aircraft → Hector Garcia de Marina 2017-02-21 10:18:59 Multi-UAV Scientific Flights Video Last year we had post here about meteorological flights using multiple UAVs. Now, the video of those experiments is finally on-line. In total 3 planes are used for the scientific measurements and an extra one for aerial footage of the other planes. They are all using Apogee boards with an extra sensor board developed in-house … Continue reading Multi-UAV Scientific Flights Video → Gautier Hattenberger 2017-01-18 10:07:46 1Bitsy & Black Magic Probe Kickstarter As many of you know a programmer and debugger is a tremendously useful tool for many Paparazzi UAV based autopilots like the Lisa/MX and Lisa/S. Our friends at 1BitSquared are running a Kickstarter to make a new revision of their Black Magic Probe JTAG SWD debugger and programmer with the addition of the 1Bitsy. 1Bitsy … Continue reading 1Bitsy & Black Magic Probe Kickstarter → Danika Esden-Tempski 2016-11-29 23:55:28 IMAV2016 The International Micro-Air Vehicle Conference and Competition was held last week in Beijing, China, organized by the Beijing Institute of Technology and the National University of Singapore. As usual, the level of the teams involved in the competition is higher year after year and we had a great show. The team from the MAVLAB of … Continue reading IMAV2016 → Gautier Hattenberger 2016-10-24 21:43:49 Video Collection