Hi guys,
Phillip Kocmoud and I are proud to announce the third generation open source, MatrixPilot based flight controller – AUAV3. We will also be releasing concurrently an external power supply / current and voltage sensor board - ACSP1. The initial batch for development and testing will be ready in a week or two. We expect to be shipping these out on or before March 1st from both the US and European locations.
Some of the AUAV3 features:
* MCU – dsPIC33EP512MU810
* Onboard 32Mb Flash AT45DB321
* Onboard IMU – MPU6000
* Onboard compass – HMC5883
* Onboard absolute pressure sensor – BMP180
* Onboard CAN – MAX3051
* Two opto-isolated UARTs – for OSD and Telemetry
* One non-isolated UART
* One I2C and one SPI user interfaces
* 8xRC inputs, 8 servo outputs
* RSSI input
* USB
* 4 x Analog inputs
* 3 x Digital I/Os
* Universal GPS 4pin 2.54 connector
* ICSP 5pin connector
* 4 x LEDs red, blue, green and yellow
Onboard Power supply
* Main power – external 5V
* Onboard 3.3V 1A LDO regulator
* Optional BackUp power – 1xLi-Po or 4xNiMH or other 5V
* ESC powering capability
* Preferable power supply – ACSP1 ( Current/Voltage sensor board + 5V3A DC-DC Buck )
Dimensions and additional extras
* Dimensions – 45 x 35mm
* Two types of connectors – 2 x 3row x 14pin 2.54mm right angled or separate straight color coded connectors
* USB port for future use – programming, etc.
* CAN interface with driver MAX3051
* ESD protection on I2C, USB and SPI
* Reverse power polarity protection by power MOSFET
The documentation will be posted here and on www.arsovtech.com in a few days.
To have the AUAV3 complete solution you will require the ACSP1 – current voltage sensor + DC-DC 5V 3A Buck power supply or alternative one.
Some of the ACSP1 features:
* Dimensions – 30 x 26mm
* Onboard Current and Voltage sensor
* Onboard 90A alloy shunt
* Onboard 5V 3A 1MHz DC-DC Buck
* 90A current capability
* 2-4 Li-Po ( up to 20V )
* A heat shrinkable tube for board protection
* 22AWG x 4 + 2.54mm 1x4 connector for powering the AUAV3
Phil and I are pleased to announce the prices of AUAV3 and ACSP1, as follow:
* AUAV3 - $129.95
* ACSP1 - $24.95
* Preorders / Promotion - AUAV3+ACSP1 - $129.95 + free shipping
Promotion and preorders will start Feb 18, 2013 and run till March 31, 2013 at www.arsovtech.com (Wordwide) and www.auav.co (North America).
Orders over $50.00 will have free shipping.
Initial quantities are limited and will be fulfilled on a first come first serve basis.
Let the fun begin!
Regards from Nick Arsov and Phill Kocmoud
Comments
Rana, Do you rather prefer the Gluonpilot on the UBD4 . You use to be such a big fan of the Matrixpilot.
@Nick I realy like your design but don't you think its time for a more powerful processor like the ARM Cortex-M4F 32bit everyone seems to be moving in this direction.
Nick, Since I have already ported the entire code of GluonPilot to UDB4 and since your board is quite wonderful and very much miniature, so I would like to have one and do rest of code porting to this board as well.
I would like to use my own current sensor & 5V from the ESC. Can send 100US$ immediately if you agree.
Hi Rana,
As you could see from the advertisement, you could have a simmilar price if you take advantage of the promotion/preorder - you could have both AUAV3+ACSP1 for $129.95 + free shipping.
More, if you calculate a simple sum of an older board+baro board+compass board+datalogger board+CANboard+optoisolation board+aditional UARTboard, you will have a much higher value.
The AUAV3 represents considerable value for money.
What about the MatrixPilot team, it is the greatest team I have the honor to know. Do believe me, soon you'll see a huge development in MP.
Nic, nice to see your board, it should be priced at 100$.
eduardo, Peter: Matrix pilot team had been a great dev team in past, but for the last two years, their code deliveries, as per their road-map did not happen at all.
If you compare the overall performance and features of Arduplane / Arducopter, including their GCS (Mission Planner) then, I would say, It would take a lot for the UDB dev team I mean Matrix Pilot dev team to come even at par with that of APM.
it run the original matrixpilot code ?
I like know more about GCS ?
Great work! Looks very nice!
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