Holybro models

ROS 2 / Gazebo Sim model packages for Holybro vehicles: currently the X500 V2 quadcopter development kit, built from a configurable part library. Targets ROS 2 Lyrical + Gazebo Jetty (the default pairing on Ubuntu 26.04), via ros_gz.

Documentation: https://honurobotics.github.io/holybro_models/

The site covers installation, running and configuring the X500, the ROS interfaces and the design of the parts pipeline.

Quick start

mkdir -p ~/ws/src
cd ~/ws/src && git clone https://github.com/HonuRobotics/holybro_models.git
cd ~/ws
rosdep update
rosdep install --from-paths src --ignore-packages-from-source --default-yes
colcon build --merge-install
source install/setup.bash
ros2 launch x500_gazebo sim.launch.xml

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md. Licensed Apache 2.0 (see LICENSE); the placeholder meshes are BSD 3 Clause from PX4 (see NOTICE and holybro_parts/models/LICENSE).