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 $50.00 will have free shipping.
Initial quantities are limited and will be fulfilled on a first come first serve basis.
Let the fun begin!
Regards from Nick Arsov and Phill Kocmoud
Comments
Dionh, at that time UDB was already working Autopilot and APM was at Ardupilot stage only, but now APM is on top and it is as good as a commercial Autopilot, having powerful hardware based on ATMega2560 / STM32F4 and have excellent GCS "Mission Planner.
Nick is a world class PCB designer, highly expert in miniaturization. In fact in a mail to Nick on 4th Feb, I also suggested the same thing as you have suggested, presently he has to focus on this hardware but later on he may consider to go for ST32F4 based hardware.
Rana, Do you rather prefer the Gluonpilot on the UBD4 . You use to be such a big fan of the Matrixpilot.
@Nick I realy like your design but don't you think its time for a more powerful processor like the ARM Cortex-M4F 32bit everyone seems to be moving in this direction.
Nick, Since I have already ported the entire code of GluonPilot to UDB4 and since your board is quite wonderful and very much miniature, so I would like to have one and do rest of code porting to this board as well.
I would like to use my own current sensor & 5V from the ESC. Can send 100US$ 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.
Nick,
Looks awesome! great spec's !
it run the original matrixpilot code ?
I like know more about GCS ?
Great work! Looks very nice!
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