PX4/PX4-Autopilot
Nov 2024 – Feb 2026
11 Months active
Languages Used
CC++ShellHaskellYAMLIDL
Technical Skills
Aerospace EngineeringC++Embedded SystemsFlight Control SystemsGeodesySimulation
Marco Hauswirth
PROFILE
Marco Hauswirth
Overall Statistics
Feature vs Bugs
60%Features
Repository Contributions
19Total
Bugs
6
Commits
19
Features
9
Lines of code
1,077
Activity Months11
Your Network
163 people
Work History
February 2026
1 Commits • 1 Features
Feb 1, 2026February 2026: Delivered a GNSS Data Handling Testing Enhancement for EKF yaw and GPS in PX4-Autopilot, refining unit tests to enforce stricter GNSS checks when the vehicle is on the ground to improve reliability of GNSS validation in EKF yaw and GPS state estimation. These improvements reduce risk of false validation in critical early flight phases and support safer field deployments.
1 Commits • 1 Features
Feb 1, 2026February 2026: Delivered a GNSS Data Handling Testing Enhancement for EKF yaw and GPS in PX4-Autopilot, refining unit tests to enforce stricter GNSS checks when the vehicle is on the ground to improve reliability of GNSS validation in EKF yaw and GPS state estimation. These improvements reduce risk of false validation in critical early flight phases and support safer field deployments.
February 2026
January 2026
1 Commits • 1 Features
Jan 1, 2026January 2026 monthly summary for PX4-PX4-Autopilot: Delivered a Code Quality Enhancement by expanding clang-tidy checks and updating the CI workflow to use the latest clang-tidy, improving maintainability and preventing regressions in safety-critical autopilot code. Change captured in commit c29630f6aedb76e933dfe6c8fc3f21d425eb1016. No major bugs fixed this month; focus on early issue detection and process improvements. Overall impact: higher code quality, more reliable builds, and faster onboarding for contributors. Technologies/skills demonstrated: clang-tidy static analysis, CI workflow automation, and code quality governance in a large C++ codebase.
January 2026
1 Commits • 1 Features
Jan 1, 2026January 2026 monthly summary for PX4-PX4-Autopilot: Delivered a Code Quality Enhancement by expanding clang-tidy checks and updating the CI workflow to use the latest clang-tidy, improving maintainability and preventing regressions in safety-critical autopilot code. Change captured in commit c29630f6aedb76e933dfe6c8fc3f21d425eb1016. No major bugs fixed this month; focus on early issue detection and process improvements. Overall impact: higher code quality, more reliable builds, and faster onboarding for contributors. Technologies/skills demonstrated: clang-tidy static analysis, CI workflow automation, and code quality governance in a large C++ codebase.
October 2025
1 Commits • 1 Features
Oct 1, 2025Concise monthly summary for 2025-10 with a focus on delivering robust GNSS altitude fusion improvements in PX4-Autopilot, highlighting business value and technical achievements.
1 Commits • 1 Features
Oct 1, 2025Concise monthly summary for 2025-10 with a focus on delivering robust GNSS altitude fusion improvements in PX4-Autopilot, highlighting business value and technical achievements.
October 2025
September 2025
2 Commits • 1 Features
Sep 1, 2025September 2025: Implemented GNSS altitude fusion stability and fault reporting in the EKF2 estimator for PX4-Autopilot. Key changes prevent GNSS-based altitude resets in Dead Reckoning mode, introduce hysteresis for re-enabling fusion after faults, and disable latitude/longitude/velocity fusion when GNSS height faults are detected. Added GNSS altitude fault flags to the estimator-status message to improve diagnostics and telemetry.
September 2025
2 Commits • 1 Features
Sep 1, 2025September 2025: Implemented GNSS altitude fusion stability and fault reporting in the EKF2 estimator for PX4-Autopilot. Key changes prevent GNSS-based altitude resets in Dead Reckoning mode, introduce hysteresis for re-enabling fusion after faults, and disable latitude/longitude/velocity fusion when GNSS height faults are detected. Added GNSS altitude fault flags to the estimator-status message to improve diagnostics and telemetry.
August 2025
1 Commits • 1 Features
Aug 1, 20252025-08 Monthly Summary – PX4-Autopilot: Terrain Height Estimation Enhanced via Optical Flow. This release refactors terrain reset logic to compute terrain height using optical flow-derived range in combination with current horizontal velocity, improving altitude estimation accuracy when relying on optical flow and enhancing overall altitude maintenance.
1 Commits • 1 Features
Aug 1, 20252025-08 Monthly Summary – PX4-Autopilot: Terrain Height Estimation Enhanced via Optical Flow. This release refactors terrain reset logic to compute terrain height using optical flow-derived range in combination with current horizontal velocity, improving altitude estimation accuracy when relying on optical flow and enhancing overall altitude maintenance.
August 2025
June 2025
1 Commits
Jun 1, 2025Month: 2025-06 — Delivered a CI workflow trigger fix for PX4-Autopilot that ensures CI checks run for commits that modify only GitHub Actions workflow files, spanning across clang-tidy, compilation, and testing pipelines. This change eliminates missed validations and reduces CI noise for workflow-change contributions, enabling faster, more reliable PR feedback. Impact includes higher confidence in code quality and release readiness, with shorter iteration cycles for workflow-related changes. Technologies/skills demonstrated include GitHub Actions, CI/CD best practices, workflow-file handling, and cross-pipeline validation.
June 2025
1 Commits
Jun 1, 2025Month: 2025-06 — Delivered a CI workflow trigger fix for PX4-Autopilot that ensures CI checks run for commits that modify only GitHub Actions workflow files, spanning across clang-tidy, compilation, and testing pipelines. This change eliminates missed validations and reduces CI noise for workflow-change contributions, enabling faster, more reliable PR feedback. Impact includes higher confidence in code quality and release readiness, with shorter iteration cycles for workflow-related changes. Technologies/skills demonstrated include GitHub Actions, CI/CD best practices, workflow-file handling, and cross-pipeline validation.
April 2025
3 Commits • 1 Features
Apr 1, 2025April 2025 monthly summary for PX4-PX4-Autopilot focusing on resilience and wind estimation improvements through synthetic airspeed integration. Highlights include enabling a synthetic airspeed fallback for fixed-wing, refactoring the AirspeedSelector for integration readiness, and updating EKF2 to use synthetic airspeed for wind estimation when primary sensors are unavailable. These changes reduce reliance on primary sensors, improve wind velocity estimation, and lay groundwork for future sensor fusion enhancements.
3 Commits • 1 Features
Apr 1, 2025April 2025 monthly summary for PX4-PX4-Autopilot focusing on resilience and wind estimation improvements through synthetic airspeed integration. Highlights include enabling a synthetic airspeed fallback for fixed-wing, refactoring the AirspeedSelector for integration readiness, and updating EKF2 to use synthetic airspeed for wind estimation when primary sensors are unavailable. These changes reduce reliance on primary sensors, improve wind velocity estimation, and lay groundwork for future sensor fusion enhancements.
April 2025
March 2025
2 Commits • 1 Features
Mar 1, 2025March 2025: Delivered reliability and safety improvements in PX4-Autopilot, focusing on terrain hold behavior and calibration workflow. The work enhances safety, reduces race conditions, and improves state signaling for calibration completion.
March 2025
2 Commits • 1 Features
Mar 1, 2025March 2025: Delivered reliability and safety improvements in PX4-Autopilot, focusing on terrain hold behavior and calibration workflow. The work enhances safety, reduces race conditions, and improves state signaling for calibration completion.
February 2025
4 Commits • 1 Features
Feb 1, 2025February 2025 was focused on strengthening flight reliability and maintainability in PX4-Autopilot. The team delivered targeted fixes and a refactor that reduce risk from stale sensor data and unintended mode transitions, while improving readability to support faster future iterations.
4 Commits • 1 Features
Feb 1, 2025February 2025 was focused on strengthening flight reliability and maintainability in PX4-Autopilot. The team delivered targeted fixes and a refactor that reduce risk from stale sensor data and unintended mode transitions, while improving readability to support faster future iterations.
February 2025
December 2024
1 Commits
Dec 1, 2024December 2024: Focused on stabilizing unit tests for the PX4-Autopilot repository by updating SITL test configurations to disable MAVLink broadcast mode, preventing tests from starting in BROADCAST_MODE_ON. This change enhances CI reliability and test determinism. Implemented in PX4/PX4-Autopilot with commit bdc6957c11159a3ec84b9ebea89aa509f9cc8404 (message: "dont use BROACAST_MODE_ON during unit testing").
December 2024
1 Commits
Dec 1, 2024December 2024: Focused on stabilizing unit tests for the PX4-Autopilot repository by updating SITL test configurations to disable MAVLink broadcast mode, preventing tests from starting in BROADCAST_MODE_ON. This change enhances CI reliability and test determinism. Implemented in PX4/PX4-Autopilot with commit bdc6957c11159a3ec84b9ebea89aa509f9cc8404 (message: "dont use BROACAST_MODE_ON during unit testing").
November 2024
2 Commits • 1 Features
Nov 1, 2024Month: 2024-11 – Focused on improving geodetic fidelity and HITL reliability in the PX4-Autopilot SIH integration. Implemented an ellipsoidal Earth model integration for SIH to enhance geodetic calculations, leveraging projection functions and constants from the geo library. Improvements include clearer variable naming, optimization for storage of rotation matrices and attitude representations, and the addition of Earth spin rate to gyro data with reorganized ECEF variables to boost precision. In parallel, fixed HITL simulation issues for the plane airframe by adjusting servo channel counts, torque parameters, and actuator function mappings to correct behavior in the HITL plane airframe model. These updates improve simulation realism, reduce drift in attitude estimation for test scenarios, and increase confidence in QA/validation and potential real-world deployment.
2 Commits • 1 Features
Nov 1, 2024Month: 2024-11 – Focused on improving geodetic fidelity and HITL reliability in the PX4-Autopilot SIH integration. Implemented an ellipsoidal Earth model integration for SIH to enhance geodetic calculations, leveraging projection functions and constants from the geo library. Improvements include clearer variable naming, optimization for storage of rotation matrices and attitude representations, and the addition of Earth spin rate to gyro data with reorganized ECEF variables to boost precision. In parallel, fixed HITL simulation issues for the plane airframe by adjusting servo channel counts, torque parameters, and actuator function mappings to correct behavior in the HITL plane airframe model. These updates improve simulation realism, reduce drift in attitude estimation for test scenarios, and increase confidence in QA/validation and potential real-world deployment.
November 2024
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Quality Metrics
Correctness86.4%
Maintainability84.8%
Architecture83.6%
Performance81.0%
AI Usage20.0%
Skills & Technologies
Programming Languages
CC++HaskellIDLShellYAML
Technical Skills
Aerospace EngineeringC++C++ DevelopmentCI/CDControl SystemsEmbedded SystemsFirmware DevelopmentFlight Control SoftwareFlight Control SystemsGNSSGeodesyGitHub ActionsKalman FiltersMessage DefinitionParameter Management
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