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).

:::note Vehicle Selection 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:

• Multicopters (tri-, quad-, hexa-, octa-, and even omnicopter vehicles)

• Planes (Fixed Wing)

• VTOL: Standard VTOL, Tailsitter VTOL, Tiltrotor VTOL

Experimental Vehicles

The following vehicle types are considered experimental:

• Airships

• Autogyros

• Balloons

• Helicopter

• Rovers

• Submarines

:::note Experimental frames are those vehicle types that:

• Do not have a maintainer.

• Are not regularly tested by the core development team.

• May lack features required for production-ready vehicles.

• May not support some common vehicle configurations for the vehicle type.

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.