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Intel® Aero Ready to Fly Drone

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Overview    Compute Board    Vision Accessory Kit    Enclosure Kit    Ready to Fly Drone

Get your drone applications airborne quickly.1 This quadcopter is a fully assembled development platform that combines the Intel® Aero Compute Board and the Intel® Aero Vision Accessory Kit with the Intel® Aero Flight Controller, GPS, compass, airframe, ESCs, motors, transmitter, and receiver. The only thing needed to start flying is a charged battery2.

Intel® Aero Ready to Fly Drone

 

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Preview of the Intel® Aero Ready to Fly Drone

The Intel® Aero Ready to Fly Drone includes the following:

Intel Aero Compute Board

  • Intel® Atom™ x7-Z8750 processor
  • 4 GB LPDDR3-1600
  • 32 GB eMMC
  • MicroSD* memory card slot
  • M.2 connector 1 lane PCIe for SSD
  • Intel® Dual Band Wireless-AC 8260
  • USB 3.0 OTG
  • Reprogrammable I/O via Altera® Max® 10 FPGA
  • 8 MP RGB camera (front-facing)
  • VGA camera, global shutter, monochrome (down-facing)
  • Open source, embedded Linux*, Yocto Project*
  • Insyde Software's InsydeH2O* UEFI BIOS optimized for the Intel® Aero Platform for UAVs. More about InsydeH20.

Intel® RealSense™ Camera (R200)

Intel® Aero Flight Controller with Dronecode* PX4* Autopilot

  • STM32 microcontroller
  • 6 DoF IMU, magnetometer, and altitude sensors
  • Connected to the Aero Compute Board over HSUART and communicates using MAVLink* protocol

Pre-assembled Quadcopter

  • Carbon fiber airframe
  • GPS and compass
  • Power distribution board
  • 4 electronic speed controllers
  • 4 motors
  • 8 snap-on propellers
  • Spektrum DSMX* serial receiver
  • Spektrum DXe rransmitter (2.4 GHz DSMX)

Specifications

NameMeasurement

Drone Dimensions - hub-to-hub (diagonal)

360 mm

Drone Height - from the base to the top of a GPS antenna

222 mm

Propeller– length

230 mm

Weight of Drone– basic configuration without battery

865 g

Gross Weight(maximum)– takeoff weight

1900 g 3

Flight Time(maximum)– with 4S, 4000mAh battery, hovering, no added payload

20 min 3

Sustained Wind(maximum)

15 knots 3

Control Distance(maximum) - with supplied remote control

300 m 3

Airspeed(maximum)

15 m/s 3

Altitude of Operation(maximum)– height above sea level

5000 3

Outside Air Temperature(minimum / maximum)

-0 C / +45 C

ESC and Motor - designed and manufactured by Yuneec

  • Input control interface
  • ESC Input Voltage

Modified for Intel® Aero

  • UART
  • 11.1 – 14.8 V

1 The Intel Aero Ready to Fly Drone is a kit for developers and is intended to be modified by developers according to their professional judgment. Intel has not established operating limitations for the kit nor tested any configurations other than the base configuration. Developers are responsible for testing and ensuring the safety of their own configurations, and establishing the operating limits of those configurations.

2 Recommended battery: Li-Po, 4S, 4000+ mAh, with XT60 connector

3 Estimated


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