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Introduction · MAVLink Developer Guide

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MAVLink is a very lightweight messaging protocol for communicating with drones (and between onboard drone components). MAVLink follows a modern hybrid publish-subscribe and point-to-point design pattern: Data streams are sent / published as topics while configuration sub-protocols such as the mission protocol or parameter protocol are point-to-point with retransmission. Messages are defined within XML files. Each XML file defines the message set supported by a particular MAVLink system, also referred to as a "dialect". The reference message set that is implemented by most ground control stations and autopilots is defined in common.xml (most dialects build on top of this definition). Code generators create software libraries for specific programming languages from these XML message definitions, which can then be used by drones, ground control stations, and other MAVLink systems to communicate. The generated libraries are typically MIT-licensed, and can therefore be used without limits i

MAVLink Developer Guide | MAVLink Guide Skip to content Menu Return to top MAVLink Developer Guide ​ MAVLink is a very lightweight messaging protocol for communicating with drones (and between onboard drone components). MAVLink follows a modern hybrid publish-subscribe and point-to-point design pattern: Data streams are sent / published as topics while configuration sub-protocols such as the mission protocol or parameter protocol are point-to-point with retransmission. Messages are defined within XML files . Each XML file defines the message set supported by a particular MAVLink system, also r

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