PX4 Robotic Drone FMU (RDDRONE-FMUK66)

Flight Management Unit running PX4, the largest commercially deployed open-source drone software stack

Overview

RDDRONE-FMUK66 PX4 drone reference design top view
RDDRONE-FMUK66 PX4 drone reference design bottom view
RDDRONE-FMUK66 with Micro SD
HoverGames Drone Kit
RDDRONE-FMUK66 PX4 drone reference design top view

RDDRONE-FMUK66 PX4 drone reference design top view  

RDDRONE-FMUK66 PX4 drone reference design bottom view

RDDRONE-FMUK66 PX4 drone reference design bottom view  

RDDRONE-FMUK66 with Micro SD

RDDRONE-FMUK66 with Micro SD  

HoverGames Drone Kit

HoverGames Drone Kit  

Drone World

Drone World  

HoverGames Drone Development Platform

HoverGames Drone Development Platform  

Specifications

PX4 Robotic Drone FMU
RDDRONE-FMUK66 flight management unit (FMU) reference design
PX4 Robotic Drone FMU

PX4 Robotic Drone FMU

RDDRONE-FMUK66 flight management unit (FMU) reference design

RDDRONE-FMUK66 flight management unit (FMU) reference design

Block Diagram Category Products Features
PX4 Robotic Drone FMU
Accelerometer + Magnetometer
FXOS8700CQ: Digital Motion Sensor - 3D Accelerometer (±2g/±4g/±8g) + 3D Magnetometer  The FXOS8700CQ 6-axis sensor combines industry-leading accelerometer and magnetometer sensors in a small 3 x 3 x 1.2 mm QFN plastic package.
Automotive Ethernet PHY
TJA1100HN: IEEE 100BASE-T1 compliant Automotive Ethernet PHY Transceiver  The TJA1100 is IEEE 100BASE-T1 compliant. The single port Ethernet PHY Transceiver is designed and fully qualified for automotive applications.
Barometer
MPL3115A2: 20 to 110 kPa, Absolute Digital Pressure Sensor  MPL3115 has a wide operating range of 20 kPa to 110 kPa, a range that covers all surface elevations on Earth, is a compact piezoresistive absolute pressure sensor with an I2C interface.
CAN Transceivers
TJA1042: High-speed CAN transceiver with standby mode  The TJA1042 high-speed CAN transceiver provides an interface between a Controller Area Network (CAN) protocol controller and the physical two-wire CAN-bus.
Controller ICs
SAF1761BE: Hi-Speed Universal Serial Bus On-The-Go controller  Compliant with Universal Serial Bus Specification Rev. 2.0; supporting data transfer at high-speed (480 Mbit/s), full-speed (12 Mbit/s) and low-speed (1.5 Mbit/s).
Gyroscope
FXAS21002C: 3-Axis Digital Gyroscope  The FXAS21002C 3-axis gyroscope extends our family of inertial, magnetic, pressure, and touch sensors.
Level Translators
NTB0104: Dual supply translating transceiver; auto direction sensing; 3-state   4-bit translating transceiver that enables bidirectional voltage level translation.
Microcontrollers (MCUs)
K66_180: Kinetis® K66-180 MHz, Dual High-Speed & Full-speed USBs, 2MB Flash Microcontrollers (MCUs) based on Arm® Cortex®-M4 Core 

The Kinetis® K66 180MHz IEEE® 1588 Ethernet MCUs are built on the Arm® Cortex®-M4F core and are optimized for applications requiring large memory densities and low-power processing efficiency.
Secure Element
A71CH: Plug and Trust - The fast, easy way to deploy secure IoT connections   Plug and Trust - The fast, easy way to deploy secure IoT connections.
A1006: Secure Authenticator IC - Embedded Security Platform  Secure Authenticator IC - Embedded Security Platform.
EdgeLock™ SE050: Plug & Trust Secure Element Family – Enhanced IoT security with maximum flexibility 

Plug & Trust Secure Element Family – Enhanced IoT security with maximum flexibility

Technical and Functional Specifications

Functionality

  • Proven business-friendly open source software with available enterprise support: PX4, QGroundControl
  • Supports all airframes: Use it for Quadcopters, Hexacopter, VTOL, planes, rovers, cars, and other robots
  • Open and flexible for development: Suitable for bare bones or other vehicle stacks, addition of companion computer with Vision, and many peripherals such as GPS, RTK-GPS, UWB, Telemetry radios, LTE, Bluetooth Low Energy, radar, ultrasonic, lidar
  • Can interface with NXP RapidIoT using RDDRONE-IOT adapter board
  • High-bandwidth interfaces: Unique automotive peripheral interfaces support light-weight two-wire 100Base-T1 Ethernet and dual CAN
  • Included in complete reference drone kit KIT-HGDRONEK66
  • Use DroneCodeSDK co-operating with an NXP i.MX, S32x, or other 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

Industrial

  • UAV Data Buses and Battery Management
  • UAV Intermediate Flight Controller
  • UAV Vision, Advanced Sensing, and Processing Board
  • Unmanned Vehicles (Ground, Air, Water)

  • Proven business-friendly open source software with available enterprise support: PX4, QGroundControl
  • Supports all airframes: Use it for Quadcopters, Hexacopter, VTOL, planes, rovers, cars, and other robots
  • Open and flexible for development: Suitable for bare bones or other vehicle stacks
  • Can interface with NXP RapidIoT using RDDRONE-IOT adapter board

  • For the complete reference drone kit please visit this page: KIT-HGDRONEK66

  • Order separately, telemetry radios available as HGD-TELEM433 (EUR) or HGDTELEM-915 (USA) depending on your country regulations

Buy

  • RDDRONE-FMUK66   Active

  • PX4 Robotic Drone FMU (RDDRONE-FMUK66)

  • Components in the KIT:

    • 1x FMU power module
    • 1x Holybro Pixhawk 4 GPS with integrated safety switch and buzzer
    • 1x 3D printed RC receiver antenna mount
    • 1x Debug breakout board with cable and 3D printed enclosure
    • 1x SEGGER J-Link EDU Mini debugger
    • 1x Generic USB-TTL-3V3 cable
    • Hex/Allen keys and wrench
    • Extra cables with JST-GH connector
    • Label for FMU enclosure
    • SDCARD
    • Telemetry radios (HGD-TELEM433 and HGD-TELEM915) must be purchased separately to match ISM band frequencies used in your country.
    • 1 @ US
    • $235.75
      • Buy Direct
      • Distributor
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  • RDDRONE-FMUK66L   Active

  • PX4 Robotic Drone FMU (RDDRONE-FMUK66L)

  • Components in the KIT:

    • Controller board RDDRONE-FMUK66
    • DCD-LZ-ADAPT board
    • Enclosure DCD-LZ-ADAPT
    • Enclosure for controller board
    • Cable RC transmitter SBUS/PPM
    • Cable for DCD-LZ-ADAPT
    • Quick Start Guide
    • Socket head cap screws

    Note: Lite version does not include the following components from the RDDRONE-FMUK66

    • FMU power module
    • Holybro Pixhawk 4 GPS with integrated safety switch and buzzer
    • SEGGER J-Link EDU Mini debugger
    • Generic USB-TTL-3V3 cable
    • SDCARD
    • 1 @ US
    • $139.00
      • Buy Direct
      • Distributor
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  • HGD-TELEM433   Active

  • Telemetry Radio for HoverGames Drone, 433Mhz (EU) 
    • HGD-TELEM433
    • 1 @ US
    • $53.00
    • Buy Direct
    • Distributor

  • HGD-TELEM915   Active

  • Telemetry Radio for HoverGames Drone, 915Mhz (US)
    • HGD-TELEM915
    • 1 @ US
    • $53.00
    • Buy Direct
    • Distributor
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Get Started

HoverGames is the best starting point in the automated vehicle world.

Getting started

Getting started using the RDDRONE-FMUK66

This guide contains all the information you need to get your HoverGames drone and RDDRONE-FMUK66 up and running.

Assembly

Assembly your new RDDRONE-FMUK66

This section is a guide on how to build the HoverGames drone with the LJI X4 500 drone frame. It works best when the pages are read in the order in which they appear in the menu.

Radio controller setup

Radio controller setup for the FlySky FS-i6S RC

A highly configurable radio controller with a touchscreen, supporting up to 10 control channels at the same time. In order to use it with the HoverGames drone, some setup is required, both for the RC transmitter and for the FMU.

Programming FMUK66

Programming FMUK66 for first use

How to load precompiled code for the PX4 boot loader and the NuttX/PX4 application.

PX4 configuration

PX4 configuration using QGroundControl

How to configure the PX4 software running on the RDDRONE-FMUK66

User Guide

PX4 Autopilot User Guide

PX4 is the Professional Autopilot developed by world-class developers from industry and academia, and supported by an active world-wide community.

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Design Resources

Start designing your final drone, rover or autonomous vehicle using the FMUK66 PX4.

Start Developing

Start developing software for the HoverGames drone by extending PX4 Autopilot or by controlling the flight controller using software running on a companion computer.

PX4 Development Guide (master)

This guide is for primarily for software developers and (new) hardware integrators.

Technical Documentation

Services

Dronecode logo

DroneCode and Linux Foundation

NXP is a member of Linux Foundation DroneCode.org, and the FMU functions under the member projects PX4.org flight stack, QGroundControl, MAVLINK, UAVCAN. PX4Pro Flight stack is open source with a business-friendly BSD license and runs on the NuttX RTOS. Several flexible simulation environments are available. All support is through the PX4 Slack community or third-party enterprise-grade support such as Auterion.com.