Suggestion: Let's make the lists less detailed

[knmcguire]

I'd like to simply the website as a whole as I think these very detailed lists are doing more harm than good in terms of overview. What I suggest, is to make use of the headers such that these are more searchable, have a small summary (taken from their websites) and just a link to the github and main page.

The order is based on a best-of-list that I've made on my own repo (privatized for now), but I've gotten a pdf print of how it looks like. The idea is to do the same with the autonomy packages as well, and just have this "best-of" or "awesome-list" also on the Aerial ROS organization to refer to from the website for more details and the ranking.

We have a lot of information on the Aerial ROS landscape, but it has come to a point that it's not easy to read anymore, so let's make use of the mkdocs ability to make nice documentation website and not put everything in tables. In that sense the educational page is in quite a good state but can be improved (I have a PR for that here #88

What do yo think @TOTON95 and @mrpollo ? I have a draft PR #89 here to show what you mean and in addition to also refer to the awesome/best-of list which is less readable but more detailed.

This is a snippet of the offline generated best-of-list that I'd like to include as a separate repo in the ROS-aerial organization.

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Autopilot Suites

The known option available for autopilote firmware suites or SDKS available for control-boards for aerial vehicles

PX4 (🥇35 · ⭐ 9.2K) - PX4 Autopilot Software. BSD-3

• GitHub (👨‍💻 930 · 🔀 13K · 📋 8.1K - 18% open · ⏱️ 17.04.2025):

   git clone https://github.com/PX4/PX4-Autopilot
  

Ardupilot (🥈32 · ⭐ 12K · 📈) - ArduPlane, ArduCopter, ArduRover, ArduSub source. ❗️GPL-3.0

• GitHub (👨‍💻 1.2K · 🔀 18K · 📋 7.2K - 21% open · ⏱️ 17.04.2025):

   git clone https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot
  

Paparazzi UAV (🥈24 · ⭐ 1.6K) - Paparazzi is a free and open-source hardware and software project for unmanned (air) vehicles. This is the main.. ❗️GPL-2.0

• GitHub (👨‍💻 170 · 🔀 920 · 📋 820 - 7% open · ⏱️ 04.04.2025):

   git clone https://github.com/paparazzi/paparazzi
  

Crazyflie firmware (🥉22 · ⭐ 1.3K) - The main firmware for the Crazyflie Nano Quadcopter, Crazyflie Bolt Quadcopter and Roadrunner Positioning Tag. ❗️GPL-3.0

• GitHub (👨‍💻 120 · 🔀 990 · 📥 14K · 📋 700 - 10% open · ⏱️ 18.04.2025):

   git clone https://github.com/bitcraze/crazyflie-firmware
  

Betaflight (🥉19 · ⭐ 9.3K · 📈) - Open Source Flight Controller Firmware - manually updated git statistics. ❗️GPL-3.0

• GitHub (👨‍💻 510 · 🔀 3.2K · 📋 5.8K - 4% open · ⏱️ 18.04.2025):

   git clone https://github.com/betaflight/betaflight
  

ROSflight (🥉18 · ⭐ 140) - Firmware for the ROSflight autopilot. BSD-3

• GitHub (👨‍💻 23 · 🔀 47 · 📋 230 - 9% open · ⏱️ 25.03.2025):

   git clone https://github.com/rosflight/rosflight_firmware
  

DJI autopilot SDK (🥉16 · ⭐ 460 · 💤) - Official ROS packages for DJI onboard SDK. ❗Unlicensed

• GitHub (👨‍💻 28 · 🔀 290 · 📋 440 - 20% open · ⏱️ 03.03.2021):

   git clone https://github.com/dji-sdk/Onboard-SDK-ROS
  

Aerial Autonomy Stacks

An aerial autonomy robotics stack is a collection of building blocks that enable the development of autonomous aerial vehicles, by providing a modular and scalable architecture for sensing, perception, planning, and control tasks. It allows unmanned aerial vehicles to perform complex missions without human intervention, while accommodating different hardware configurations and simulation environments.

Aerostack2 (🥇19 · ⭐ 190 · 📈) - Aerostack2 is a ROS 2 framework developed to create autonomous multi-aerial-robots systems in an easy and powerful way. BSD-3

• GitHub (👨‍💻 17 · 🔀 44 · 📋 290 - 16% open · ⏱️ 02.04.2025):

   git clone https://github.com/aerostack2/aerostack2
  

Clover (🥇18 · ⭐ 450) - ROS-based framework and RPi image to control PX4-powered drones. MIT

• GitHub (👨‍💻 67 · 🔀 260 · 📥 21K · 📋 80 - 2% open · ⏱️ 20.01.2025):

   git clone https://github.com/CopterExpress/clover
  

RotorS (🥈16 · ⭐ 1.3K · 💤) - RotorS is a UAV gazebo simulator. ❗Unlicensed

• GitHub (👨‍💻 49 · 🔀 680 · 📋 380 - 42% open · ⏱️ 06.07.2021):

   git clone https://github.com/ethz-asl/rotors_simulator
  

Crazyswarm2 (🥈16 · ⭐ 140) - A Large Quadcopter Swarm. MIT

• GitHub (👨‍💻 30 · 🔀 78 · 📋 220 - 23% open · ⏱️ 06.03.2025):

   git clone https://github.com/IMRCLab/crazyswarm2
  

GAAS (🥈15 · ⭐ 2K · 💤) - GAAS is an open-source program designed for fully autonomous VTOL(a.k.a flying cars) and drones. GAAS stands for.. BSD-3

• GitHub (👨‍💻 10 · 🔀 440 · 📥 68 · 📋 130 - 5% open · ⏱️ 25.10.2021):

   git clone https://github.com/generalized-intelligence/GAAS
  

Multi-robot Systems Group UAV system (🥈15 · ⭐ 490) - The entry point to the MRS UAV system. BSD-3

• GitHub (👨‍💻 9 · 🔀 90 · 📋 92 - 4% open · ⏱️ 14.03.2025):

   git clone https://github.com/ctu-mrs/mrs_uav_system
  

Crazyswarm (🥉14 · ⭐ 340 · 💤) - A Large Quadcopter Swarm. MIT

• GitHub (👨‍💻 20 · 🔀 230 · 📋 380 - 4% open · ⏱️ 17.12.2022):

   git clone https://github.com/USC-ACTLab/crazyswarm
  

Aerostack (🥉14 · ⭐ 160 · 💤) - Software framework for aerial robotic systems. BSD-3

• GitHub (🔀 43 · 📋 73 - 5% open · ⏱️ 16.11.2021):

   git clone https://github.com/cvar-upm/aerostack/
  

kr_autonomous_flight (🥉12 · ⭐ 700 · 💤) - KR (KumarRobotics) autonomous flight system for GPS-denied quadrotors. ❗️non-commercial research license

• GitHub (👨‍💻 14 · 🔀 120 · 📋 49 - 20% open · ⏱️ 19.08.2023):

   git clone https://github.com/KumarRobotics/kr_autonomous_flight
  

grvc-ual (🥉12 · ⭐ 52 · 💤) - An abstraction layer for unmanned aerial vehicles. MIT

• GitHub (👨‍💻 14 · 🔀 25 · 📋 63 - 17% open · ⏱️ 15.12.2022):

   git clone https://github.com/grvcTeam/grvc-ual
  

Agilicious (🥉1) - ❗️non-commercial research license

• No project information available.

[mrpollo]

How are these generated, and how can we keep them up to date?

[knmcguire]

This is an offline generation of a best-of list (like the one I made for simulators herehttps://github.com/[knmcguire/best-of-robot-simulators](https://github.com/knmcguire/best-of-robot-simulators)), but we can add a list like this on the Aerial ROS organization. Currently this type of list is very much for 'single readme repo' only, so it is not really ideal to actually include this to the landscape like this (unless we make our own 'best-of generator).

We can maintain a best-of list on the side on a different repository, which is automatic, but curate the aerial robotics landscape based on that ranking in the format like I've proposed in #89 . I think we should not make it too automatic as we should be in the loop and aware of which are the important tools to use, but we still use the best-of list as a helper tool.

[C-PANATORN]

Hi, I actually really like the detailed lists.

I think they provide very valuable insights on the state of arts of drone hardware/software, and I've personally referenced these tables on my own projects.

However, I do agree that the site does seem abit cluttered and would benefit from some streamlining.

I would like to suggest a compromise of the suggestion at the beginning of #90. If headers are to be used in the future, I wish to retain the table format in some form. Perhaps subsection or external link?

Best Wishes, Cheers!