WaterRescueDrones Project

On October 29th and 30th NXP participated the Flight Test Convention 2025 @ Cochstedt Airport, DLR national UAS test center. WaterRescueDrones project and the demonstrator has been shown. Also a live demonstration of UWB guided precision landing has been performed with one of the project's demonstrator drone by Tim Hadler and Gerald Peklar of NXP. Video of UWB guided precision landing. Landing pad is 2x2m with the UWB ground target centered.   Review by DLR on the event   h ttps://www.dlr.de/de/ux/aktuelles/nachrichten/rueckblick-auf-die-6-uav-flight-test-convention-in-cochstedt

You may wonder what we do if we don't fly at the beach with the big drone testing the overall state of development. The answer is quite simple: It's a lot of SW development done with bench testing, followed by system functionality verification by flight testing. Due to the complexity of our system   we are flight testing every drone software change with a minimum of 10 flight hours on one of our small test drones before applying it on the project demonstrator .  Example flight testing UWB guided precision landing The small test drone uses mainly the same NXP electronic components we have on the big X25 - NXP Auriol MR-VMU-RT1176 (NXP i.MX RT1176) FMU running PX4 NavQplus (NXP i.MX8Mplus) companion computer running ROS2 Jazzy, connected via T1 ethernet to FMU MR-T1ETH8 (NXP SJA1110) 10port T1 ethernet switch FETtec ESC60A pro (NXP S32K146) controlled triple redundant via Dshot and 2x CAN bus Consider-IT OBU (NXP SAF5400 & i.MX8) communication unit Murata 2BP UWB development...