Hardware

 Hardware in use

Drone

HHLA-Sky NXP Auriol (X25) drone

Airframe & none NXP based components

    - HHLA-Sky X25, NXP Auriol variant, octocopter
    - T-Motor U2 100kv motor
    - T-Motor 28" folding props
    - Here4 GNSS receiver (CAN)
    - HHLA-Sky flight termination system (LTE)
    - FLARM Atom UAV ADSB receiver, FLARM transceiver and Direct RemoteID transmitter
    - Skydroid 2.4GHz RC AirUnit 
    - MTOM 25kg

NXP components 

    - MR-VMU-RT1176 flight control running PX4 flight stack
    - NavQplus (i.MX8M-plus) companion computer running Ubuntu 22.4 and ROS2
    - MR-T1ETH8 8port ethernet switch with 6x 100base-T1, 1x 100base-TX & 1x 1000base-TX
    - MR-CANHUBK3 CAN functional safe controller
    - Consider-IT D2X modem (LTE, DSRC & WiFi) based on NXP SAF5400 and i.MX8
    - FETtec ESC60Apro motor control based on NXP S32K146 MCU

Drone Payload



- SIYI ZT30 gimbal camera providing RGB and IR videostream (RTSP).
- NavQplus (i.MX8M-plus) companion computer running MediaMTX for videostreaming and OpenCV for object detection/classification using AI accelerator (connected via T1 ethernet to drone internal network)
- Servo for release mechanism (controlled from flight control)
- 2x 12W LED search light (controlled from flight control)
- smartmicro DRVEGRD® 152 radar sensor for obstacle detection (connected via T1 ethernet to drone companion)

GroundControl

Remote control

- Skydroid H16 remote control

Mobile ground control station


Vehicle
    - Fiat Ducato L4H2
Interiour
    - setup done by B&S Car Audio
Power supply  
    - Bluetti AC500 5kw power station
    - 4x Bluetti B300 Expansion Battery | 3072Wh (12288Wh overall)
    - 4x Solar panels 180W each on rooftop
Communication & IT
    - Teltonika RUTX50 5G modem
    - Starlink dish (flat mounted on rooftop, on WAN port of RUTX50)
    - Air!Squitter ADSB,FLARM (OGN),MLAT receiver (1090Mhz, 868MHz and GPS Antenna on rooftop)
    - Consider-IT One OBU V2X modem 
    - D-Dlink DGS12124E 24port ethernet switch
    - NXP Bluebox1 (NXP Layerscape based server) running MavLink router for drone telemetry distribution, MediaMTX for video stream distribution, nextCloud server and Mosquitto MQTT server.
    - Shuttle SLIM DH610 workstation PC with 3 monitors
       Running QGroundcontrol for drone operation monitoring and Air!Squitter web GUI for airtraffic monitoring.
 



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