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
Andreas. It is a fair enough point. I do understand why people do not release source code though. No company that has created such a product and plans to sell it as a system releases source code (not necessarily because it is appropriated code). At the same time one might expect pushback on what has been a community for open source projects.
@ Marc. Sure, I 'm not surprised about the decision, just wondering out loud why not open up the code (the reasons offered up do not seem too convincing to me) and saying that, in my case, it would be a deal breaker.
@Tevada. At his discounted price of $490 it is not so expensive actually. A Naza M V2 with 2.4 Telemetry is $500. And on paper at least the DJI Naza M V2 is less capable as it really only has iPad support and you cannot really use it to fly mapping grids. No disrespect to you but you have the priorities of a hobbyist, which is fine. An ebay Pixhawk (or even a better version) can be great when set up well, but it is not for everyone, and it is often manufactured to the lowest specs with dubious QC.
Kirill needs to prove this is better or at least as good for professional use. I remember well the side-by-side tests that showed Arducopter GPS hold exceeding Wookong. I think we need to see more of this. He needs to get these into the wild. Most US pro users are going to want some sort of US-based office as well, which I imagine is hard to do without a US partner/dealer, which will bring the price up, as it should, to cover the cost of support and dealer margin. Just my 2 cents.
Andreas when companies do not go the open source route they generally do not open up their code. Of course it is fine to ask. If he has developed all this in house why would he? It is a bit more significant than a printer driver.
Um, why? Opening up your source code doesn't mean a client needs software engineers to make it work. If, say, the company who makes my printer decided to publish the code to its driver doesn't mean I will suddenly need a PhD in computer science to make it print.
Andreas, it's possible only in case you have your own experienced software engineers who can add special features based on the source code. The majority of integrator companies who deliver drone solution don't have such people in house. Therefore, it's much easier for them to request original flight controller developer to add special features they need.
Darius Jack, probably some of the fly away cases are related to the specific frequencies and harmonics causing attitude / position estimator go crazy but I don't think that this is the general reason. It's more about the software reliability as the entire architecture and how tasks management done, resources control etc.
Kiril, no offence and I wish you well. However, I 'm currently considering going pro and starting a company (might come to nothing, lots of things to sort out for that happen) but using non open source software would be an immediate deal breaker in our (still under development) plans. Other than that, your price looks reasonable for what you are planning and I 'm sure you 'll fix your website soon to provide both your location and prices.
Marc, yes, this is more oriented for professional applications rather than just flying around for fun. DJI took almost the whole market providing solutions from simple inexpensive ready-to-fly drones to higher level oriented components.
There're a few options for power supply. You can connect the main LiPo battery directly to the board (10-36V = 3-8S). Optionally you can connect current sensor to dedicated ADC port. Current sensor is Hall effect based.
Fixed wing support is in the plans, but I can't give any exact estimations about the timeframe for this at the moment.
Probably, but now I don't think that porting APM code is the best solution. With all that issues APM has - I think it's time for the new, more reliable and stable firmware.
Marc Dornan
I think it very expensive more than another fligth control.
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