FMUK66 Vehicle Controller

Everything you need to know on how to use your FMUK66 board.

What is this board?

RDDRONE-FMUK66 vehicle/flight management unit reference design is the foundation for building industrial robotic drones, rovers, and other small autonomous vehicles. This reference design runs PX4 Autopilot, the standard for industrial-grade drones, and gives you freedom to develop your own robotic vehicle. Furthermore, the VMU/FMU is versatile and can run other open source or proprietary flight stacks.

It controls and directs the vehicle's navigation and real-time response to its environment. It is adaptable to many airframes and vehicle types, including ground and water-based robots. It performs sensor fusion, including GPS and other positioning inputs for autonomous navigation to mission way points. The open, extensible platform supports many additional sensors.

List of Technologies & Specifications

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 lightweight 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 another 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

Complete Drone Kit

• For the complete reference drone kit, visit KIT-HGDRONEK66.

Additional Components

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

Links

• NXP link to the product webpage:

PX4 Robotic Drone VehicleFlight Management Unit VMUFMU RDDRONEFMUK66NXP

• Design Files link:

PX4 Robotic Drone VehicleFlight Management Unit VMUFMU RDDRONEFMUK66NXP