SmartAP 3.0 Pro Autopilot is the high-level flight control system for multirotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles with the capability of fully autonomous flight including take off, waypoints flight and landing. The hardware core is powered by STM32F4 microcontroller from STMicroelectronics, 9-axis Inertial Measurement Unit and the latest GPS/GLONASS receiver from UBlox providing outstanding flight precision. SmartAP has its own Configuration and Mission Planning software called SmartAP GCS. The system supports any type of multirotor UAV with the highest navigation and control accuracy. SmartAP Autopilot was developed using the latest electronic components available at the moment, which allowed to achieve such amazing results!
General features of the system:
- All-integrated system approach - plug and fly
- Extremely stable flight in
- stabilize (user control)
- position hold (semi-autonomous control)
- auto (fully autonomos navigation and control)
- MAVLink compatible Ground Control Station protocol
- Accurate Position hold
- Horizontal: up to 40cm
- Vertical: up to 10cm
- Manual altitude override
- Fully autonomous waypoints flight
- Autonomous take off
- Autonomous landing
- Return to Home mode
- Low battery detection and Failsafe triggering
- And many many more...
The system installed on 960-sized hexacopter:
Hardware:
- Powerful microcontroller 32 bit 168 MHz STM32F4 ARM Cortex M4
- Compact board size of 8x8 cm (3.15"x3.15"), weight 60g, 6 layers PCB design
- Power supply from main LiPO battery (3S - 8S) support, up to 36 Volts
- Power supply from BEC 5V support
- 12V, 5V, 3.3V generated onboard
- Integrated GPS receiver (UBlox NEO8, GPS/GLONASS, up to 24 sats, 10 Hz) active antenna, exnternal module is supported as well
- Integrated telemetry module (100 mW), external module is supported as well (up to 5V@1A powered)
- Up to 24 PWM I/O support (5V out, high-power), SBUS support
- USB interface for configuration / firmware update
- 6-pin JTAG port for programming / debugging
- Various communication lines (UART/USART, RS232, I2C, SPI)
- MicroSD card driven by 4-bit SDIO interface for data-logging / parameters
- Backup battery for real-time clock and GPS receiver
- Integrated main LiPo battery voltage monitoring
- 4 ADC inputs, battery voltage / current monitoring
- Electromagnetic sound audio indicator
- 4-channels bright LED support (up to 100mA/ch)
The components of the system:
SmartAP Ground Control Station and Configuration Tool
SmartAP GCS (Ground Control Station) is the software application which allows you to plan autonomous mission for your SmartAP Autopilot as well as control the UAV using intuitive high-level commands.
General features are:
- Flexible and user-friendly interface
- One-click commands for high-level control
- ARM, Take off, Loiter, Land etc.
- Status information display
- Real-time video feed and overlay
- with video capture device
- Major flight information display
- Mission planning using waypoints
- Customizable waypoints' settings
- Flight logging support
- Realtime plot of all parameters
- Integrated log analyzer
- Points of interest selection and control
- Terminal window
Ground Control Station Mainwindow
Supported Airframes
- Quadcopter Plus 4
- Quadcopter X 4
- Quadcopter W 4
- Hexacopter Plus 6
- Hexacopter X 6
- Octocopter Plus 8
- Octocopter X 8
- Tricopter I 6
- Tricopter Y 6
- Quadcopter X 8
- Hexacopter X 12
Ground Control Station demo video
User's review video:
More information and ordering at: http://sky-drones.com/
Kirill
Sky-Drones.com
Comments
I look at ebay.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/DJI-Phantom-3-Standard-W-2-7K-Video-12MP-Ca...
QuadrotorThai, DJI also has A2, which costs around $1300. SmartAP is that level of the system.
DJI Phantom 3 Standard ($499.00) already to fly with camera.
I think SmartAP price $200 or cheaper it will easy to sale.
QuadrotorThai, right, but the target users and applications for these two systems are different.
SmartAP expensive than Pixhawk PX4 v2.4.6.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/PIXHAWK-PX4-V2-4-6-Autopilot-Flight-Control...
@earthpatrol,
there is no legislation to let third parties to audit proprietary code protected under
copyrights and Berne's Convention (vide WIPO).
Earthpatrol, agree with you. At the moment we want to show the performance of the system and prove that it's better compared to the other available systems. Then it will become obvious that we didn't copy and paste something from open source. Anyway, if someone will be interested in 3rd party code audit - we're always ready to prove that the code is proprietary.
Andreas, we're located in Moscow. You can always contact us using the form on the website and we'll be glad to answer all your questions.
Marc, thank you for your words! Highly appreciate your thoughts and opinion! Agree with you, 3DR missed the right time to develop and release something like this, professionally oriented. I had a talk with their dev team lead in Berkeley and they were pretty interested in SmartAP 3.0. But most likely something ready-to-fly like Solo has much more priority at the moment.
That's right - the next step will be direct comparison with the other well-known platform. For instance, we've already tested GPS position hold accuracy compared to DJI Wookong side by side (left - Wookong, right - SmartAP):
Good questions about the RF module. Actually we're using HM-TRP and it already has integrated protection which makes it quite safe to use.
Currently the price or the entire system with GPS and telemetry is $490, we give a huge discount due to the system is not well-known yet and people are afraid to buy expensive products that they don't know much about.
GPS depends a lot on the "weather" and this is the main reason of unknown unexpected drift. I don't think that Pixhawk has much better position hold, every Pixhawk powered drone I saw had the same or lower level of accuracy.
I've already considered the idea of giving the system to Marco for tests and review and like it more and more. Thanks for the hint!
And thanks again for the comment!
Erik, actually, the layout of the most GCS's is pretty similar to each other, all of them have Map, PFD, Status field, Control buttons etc. Also it's about the usability and interaction. Mission Planner has pretty good user interface, we've checked lots of design and picked the best ideas of widgets location, size etc and implemented in our software.
You're right, that's just a windows layout pasted onto Macbook, but Mac OS version will be available for download in just a few, we're doing the last tests and checks at the moment.
Actually, there is nothing common between SmartAP GCS and Mission Planner from the code point of view, we've developed the app using Qt and it's cross-platform (Windows, Mac, Linux) while Mission Planner is based on .NET and is supported only in Windows.
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