The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Development Kit offers professional application developers unfamiliar with drone mechanics and avionics the opportunity to focus on application software and sensor hardware, ensuring optimized data and services. Typical drone applications include goods delivery, inspection and surveillance, and potential uses in agriculture and construction. The open and flexible nature of the platform, along with the use of open-source software, ease of licensing, and affordable hardware, make this kit ideal for use in schools and universities.
The Intel® Aero platform provides a complete drone development ecosystem and includes the Intel® Aero Compute board, the Intel® Aero Vision accessory kit, and the Intel® Aero flight controller with Dronecode PX4 autopilot software. It also includes electronic speed controllers, motors, a compass, GPS, a transmitter and receiver, and a carbon fiber fuselage. The only additional component needed is a battery to get the system up and running quickly and easily.
The brain of this complete open-source quadcopter is the Intel Aero Compute board, powered by a quad-core Intel® Atom processor that combines computing, storage, communications, and flexible I/O in a card-sized form factor. The board also features Intel® RealSense technology, providing vision and depth, and a pre-programmed flight controller with Dronecode PX4 software. It is also compatible with the AirMap SDK for airspace services.
For flight vision and sensing capabilities, the Vision Accessory Kit includes the Intel RealSense R200 camera, an 8-megapixel high-resolution camera, and a VGA camera with their corresponding cables. Also available is the Intel® Aero Enclosure Kit, a mechanical housing specifically designed to contain the Compute Board and the Vision Accessory Kit with three cameras. An optional device for the Intel® Aero Ready to Fly Drone is the newly introduced Movidius™ Neural Compute Unit (NCS), which provides advanced computer vision, perception, and next-generation deep learning inference.
