# ZJU-FAST-Lab/Fast-Drone-250

hardware and software design of the 250mm autonomous drone

Repository: https://github.com/ZJU-FAST-Lab/Fast-Drone-250
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/fast-drone-250
Language: C++
License Family: other
Last push: 2022-11-09T08:02:26+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1800, "days_push": 1393, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2492, forks 411 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:56.527178+00:00)

## What it is
An open-source course and reference design from ZJU FAST Lab for building a 250mm autonomous quadcopter drone, including hardware assembly guides, flight controller firmware, and onboard software setup. It bundles the Ego-Planner trajectory planner and VINS visual-inertial navigation stack so the drone can autonomously avoid obstacles in unknown environments.

## Use cases
- build an autonomous obstacle-avoiding drone from scratch
- learn drone hardware assembly and flight controller setup
- deploy Ego-Planner on a real quadcopter
- calibrate VINS visual-inertial odometry on a drone
- follow a free tutorial course on autonomous aerial robots
- set up Ubuntu and onboard computer software for a drone

## When to choose
- you want a complete end-to-end guide to building a small autonomous drone
- you need proven open-source planning and VIO software for a 250mm quadcopter
- you are a student or hobbyist learning aerial robotics hands-on

## When to avoid
- you need a commercial-grade or production-ready drone platform
- you want a simulator-only project without hardware work
- you require a permissively licensed codebase, since commercial use is prohibited

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: active
- function: robotics, machine-learning, developer-tools, documentation
- domain: robotics, autonomous-vehicles, tutorials, hardware, embedded-systems
- platform: cpp, embedded, cross-platform
- tags: drone, quadcopter, uav, px4, vins, ego-planner, obstacle-avoidance, trajectory-planning, hardware-design, tutorial, nuc, slam, linux

## Member repositories
- ZJU-FAST-Lab/Fast-Drone-250 (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:56.527178+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:27:45.354518+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/ZJU-FAST-Lab/Fast-Drone-250 (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:56.527178+00:00, sha f695ac089a01)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.