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PX4 Robotic Drone Vehicle/Flight Management Unit (VMU/FMU) - RDDRONE-FMUK66

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Barometric Pressure 15 to 150 kPa

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Processors and Microcontrollers

K6x Ethernet

Analog and Mixed Signal

Voltage Level Translators

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Features

Functionality

  • Proven business-friendly open source software with available enterprise support: PX4, QGroundControl
  • Supports all airframes and vehicles: quadcopters, hexacopters, VTOL, planes, rovers, cars and other robots
  • Open and flexible development - suitable for bare bones or other vehicle stacks. Add companion computer with vision and peripherals such as GPS, RTK-GPS, UWB, telemetry radios, LTE, Bluetooth® low energy, radar, ultrasonic, lidar
  • Can interface with NXP® RapidIoT using RDDRONE-IOT adapter board
  • High-bandwidth interfaces: automotive peripheral interfaces support light-weight two-wire 100Base-T1 Ethernet and dual CAN
  • Included in complete reference drone kit KIT-HGDRONEK66
  • Uses DroneCodeSDK co-operating with an NXP i.MX, S32x or other companion computer running Linux®, ROS and MAVROS
  • MAVLink telemetry to ground station
  • Supports RTK GPS
  • UAS traffic management (UTM) services through air map platform SDK

Software/Development

  • Proven business-friendly open source software with available enterprise support: PX4, QGroundControl
  • Supports all airframes and vehicles: quadcopters, hexacopters, VTOL, planes, rovers, cars and other robots
  • Open and flexible development - suitable for bare bones or other vehicle stacks.
  • Can interface with NXP RapidIoT using RDDRONE-IOT adapter board

Complete Drone Kit

Additional Components

  • Telemetry radios available by separate orders, depending on your country HGD-TELEM433 (EUR) or HGDTELEM-915 (USA) depending on your country regulations

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  • Telemetry Radio for HoverGames Drone, 433Mhz (EU) .

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    • Inventory: 5
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  • Telemetry Radio for HoverGames Drone, 915Mhz (US).

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