Holybro PX4 Vision V1.5 Quadcopter Development Kit

The PX4 Vision Autonomy Development Kit is a robust, high quality kit for enabling computer vision development on autonomous vehicles. The kit contains a near-ready-to-fly carbon-fibre quadcopter equipped with a Pixhawk 6C flight controller, a UP Core companion computer (4GB memory & 64GB eMMC), and a Occipital Structure Core depth camera sensor. Ships preassembled. The Vision V1.5 replaces the original PX4 Vision kit which is now discontinued, the updates and differences are listed here.

Note: This vehicle comes with no software preinstalled. There is a pre-imaged USB stick that has a reference implementation of the PX4/Avoidance local planner software provided by Auterion. This is a basic software used only as a reference to show the basic function the PX4 vision can do. Developers can use the kit to try out other features provided by the PX4 Avoidance project, modify the existing code, or experiment with completely new computer vision-based functionality.

Please read following PX4 Guide for detail information about this Development Kit - HERE

What Else Do You Need:

The kit contains all the essential drone hardware except a battery and a radio control system, which must be purchased separately:

• Battery:
  • 4S LiPo with XT60 female connector
  • Less than 115mm long (to fit between power connector and GPS mast)
• Radio control system
  • Any PX4-compatible RC System can be used.
  • An FrSky Taranis transmitter with R-XSR receiver is one of the more popular setups.
• An H2.0 Hex Key (to unscrew the top plate so that an RC receiver can be connected)

In addition, users will need ground station hardware/software:

• Laptop or tablet running QGroundControl (QGC).

Important Information:

• The kit is intended for computer vision projects that use a forward-facing camera (it does not have downward or rear-facing depth cameras). Consequently it can’t be used (without modification) for testing Safe Landing, or other features that require a downward-facing camera.
• Obstacle avoidance in missions can only be tested when GPS is available (missions use GPS co-ordinates). Collision prevention can be tested in position mode provided there is a good position lock from either GPS or optical flow.
• The port labeled USB1 may jam the GPS if used with a USB3 peripheral (disable GPS-dependent functionality including missions). This is why the boot image is supplied on a USB2.0 memory stick.
• The UP Core should only be powered using the battery (do not remove the UP Core power socket safety cover).