Titan Ground Control is Titan Dynamics' fork of QGroundControl, the open-source ground control station for MAVLink-enabled drones. It keeps everything QGC offers — full flight control, mission planning, and vehicle setup for PX4 and ArduPilot — and layers on an AI flight assistant, a redesigned Fly View, and a more streamlined day-to-day workflow.
This document covers what's new in this fork. For general QGC usage and build instructions, see the Upstream Resources below.
A built-in AI assistant that lets you fly and configure your aircraft by talking to it, in plain English, right from the Fly View.
- Conversational control powered by Anthropic's Claude. Ask it to arm, take off, fly to a point, change altitude or heading, set speed, orbit, switch flight modes, run missions, or read and write parameters.
- Voice in, voice out — optional speech-to-text (via Groq Whisper) and spoken responses, so you can issue commands hands-free.
- Firmware- and vehicle-aware — understands ArduCopter, ArduPlane, QuadPlane/VTOL, and PX4, and picks the right modes and commands for each (e.g. plane takeoff vs. copter guided takeoff, VTOL transitions).
- Multi-step sequences — chains actions together ("arm, take off to 30 m, then fly north 100 m"), tracks each step's progress live, and waits for completion before moving on.
- Points of Interest — drop POIs on the map and reference them by name ("orbit POI 2").
- Safety first — optional confirmation prompts for dangerous commands (arm, takeoff, emergency stop), with disarm blocked while flying.
Configure it under Application Settings → Titan AI (Claude API key required; Groq key optional for voice).
- Arm / Disarm button right on the toolbar, colored red for visibility.
- Quick flight-mode buttons sourced from your
FLTMODE1–FLTMODE6parameters. - Guided action confirmations as a clear centered popup instead of a cramped toolbar control.
- Frosted-glass blur and reduced opacity for a cleaner overlay on top of the map and video.
- Shortened flight-mode names for fixed-wing / FBW modes so they fit at a glance.
- Richer battery tooltip showing current, power draw, and efficiency — plus a fix for the upstream bug that showed a half-full yellow icon at 0%.
- Draggable PiP overlay that snaps to screen edges and stays put when the window resizes.
- Resizable with a settings gear and a dropdown of common aspect ratios.
- Split toggle to expand the Configure/Settings panel to full width, with smooth animations, and the layout is remembered across launches.
- Redesigned parameter editor with a styled, readable table.
- General polish across the Vehicle Configuration and Parameters pages.
- Orange accent theme and Titan Dynamics branding throughout.
- Sensible out-of-the-box defaults: instrument panel set to Horizontal Compass & Attitude, audio muted on first run, and a mobile layout that uses full-width panels and the indoor theme.
Titan Ground Control tracks upstream QGroundControl. For everything not specific to this fork, the official QGC documentation applies:
Titan Ground Control is open source under the same license as QGroundControl.