Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, are easily one of the most popular fields of electronics in the world today. Aerotenna LLC is one of the drone industry’s leading manufacturers of products that facilitate smarter, safer UAVs. Let’s take a look at some of their game-changing new products.
OcPoC Zynq Mini
The OcPoC Zynq Mini is Aerotenna’s premier flight controller. It is based around the Xilinx Zynq Z-7010 SoC, which contains the ARM A9 microprocessor and an Artix-7 FPGA. This gives the OcPoC incredible capabilities, including triple redundancy for precise flight. The OcPoC also contains two 9-degree-of-freedom (DOF) inertial measurement units (IMUs) for stability and an embedded barometer for in-flight pressure and weather sensing, reducing the total component need for your drone. The powerful dual core processors also give the OcPoC crisp real-time signal processing on top of advanced algorithmic computing, making way for the introduction of deep learning/artificial intelligence systems into your UAV design. Over 30 programmable external I/Os round out the OcPoC with incredible flexibility, and its compact size makes the OcPoC an ideal choice for small, intelligent drones.
µLanding
Aerotenna’s µLanding is a miniaturized microwave altimeter, designed for low profile, low power consumption operation in any drone. By utilizing above-ground-level (AGL) altitude data, the µLanding provides any UAV with robust autonomous takeoff/landing, as well as waypoint GPS navigation for autonomous flight. The smallest and lightest altimeter on the market, µLanding is easy to install and use, is seamless compatible with Aerotenna’s OcPoC Zynq Mini and designed with the end user in mind.
µSharp Patch & µSharp 360o
For the best collision avoidance on the market, check out Aerotenna’s µSharp Patch & µSharp 360o. The µSharp Patch is a credit card-sized, all weatherproof high performance radar system. With proprietary miniature antennae and ICs for object detection, the µSharp Patch can be easily mounted on critical areas of your UAV to avoid crashing into prominent or otherwise dangerous obstacles, capable of sensing objects from 0.5 to 120 m in any light or weather condition. The plug-and-play radar system has standard I/Os for integrating easily into the OcPoC or other open source flight controllers. The µSharp 360o is an omnidirectional version of the µSharp Patch. With a full 360o (hence the name) object detection field and no blind spots, the tennis ball-sized radar system has the same functional features as the Patch, but in every direction.
Precision Spray Autopilot
The Precision Spray Autopilot incorporates Aerotenna’s OcPoC and µLanding, as well as the UAVenture’s AirRails Crop Sprayer firmware and the AirRails Ground Control Station: Crop Spraying edition for Android into an all-in-one kit. The kit is designed specifically for farmers and other agriculturalists that use drones for distributing water, fertilizers, or pesticides on their crops. Plug-and-play and simple to use, the Precision Spray Autopilot not only increases the accuracy of your drone, but also gives it the quality flight control that Aerotenna products provide.
Smart Drone Development Platform
For easily combining all the capabilities of the OcPoC flight controller, the µLanding altimeter and the µSharp Patch collision avoidance system, check out the Aerotenna Smart Drone Development Platform. This robotic development kit utilizes all of Aerotenna’s high-performance technology, along with a sleek, foldable quadcopter, to give you the opportunity to create an effective drone solution without having to jump through the hoops of fashioning a high precision UAV to hold your platform. All you have to do is open the box, mount the plug-and-play Aerotenna hardware and start developing!
When it comes to creating and developing high quality, precision and safe UAVs, no one will help you take to the sky better than Aerotenna LLC.