Pixhawk open standards provides readily available hardware specifications and guidelines for drone systems development. The standards provide all aspects of mechanical and electrical specifications and guidelines for creating interoperable drone system components. The standards are developed by the Pixhawk Special Interest Group,which are coordinated by the Dronecode Foundation.

The drone standards (DS) documents are organized as follows:

• DS-001-008: Reserved for future use
• DS-009: Pixhawk Connector Standard
• DS-010: Pixhawk Autopilot Bus Standard
• DS-011: Pixhawk Autopilot v5X Standard
• DS-012: Pixhawk Autopilot v6X Standard
• DS-013: Pixhawk Smart Battery Standard (no longer in use)
• DS-014: Pixhawk Payload Bus Standard
• DS-015: https://github.com/Dronecode/SIG-CAN-Drone (no longer in use)
• DS-016: Pixhawk Autopilot v6U Standard (in draft)
• DS-017: Pixhawk Radio Interface
• DS-018: Pixhawk Autopilot v6C Standard
• DS-019: Pixhawk standard versions and revisions
• DS-020: Pixhawk Autopilot v6X-RT Standard