# FMUK66 Vehicle Controller

## 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](https://www.nxp.com/part/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](https://www.nxp.com/applications/solutions/industrial/unmanned-aerial-vehicles-uavs/uavs-drones-and-rovers/nxp-hovergames-drone-kit-including-rddrone-fmuk66-and-peripherals: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](https://www.nxp.com/applications/solutions/industrial/unmanned-aerial-vehicles-uavs/uavs-drones-and-rovers/nxp-hovergames-drone-kit-including-rddrone-fmuk66-and-peripherals:KIT-HGDRONEK66).

#### Additional Components

* Telemetry radios available by separate orders, depending on your country [HGD-TELEM433](https://www.nxp.com/part/HGD-TELEM433) (EUR) or [HGDTELEM-915](https://www.nxp.com/part/HGD-TELEM915) (USA) depending on your country regulations.

## Links

* NXP link to the product webpage:

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* Design Files link:

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