High-performance drone for indoor labs : QDrone
Product Description
High-performance drone for indoor labs
The Quanser QDrone autonomous air vehicle is a midsize quadrotor equipped with a powerful onboard Intel® Aero Compute Board, multiple high-resolution cameras, and built-in Wi-Fi. As part of the Autonomous Vehicles Research Studio, this direct-access research-grade drone is tuned to accelerate your research and is ideal for innovative research in multi-agent, swarm, and vision-based applications.
Overview
The durable, light-weight carbon-fiber frame makes the QDrone highly maneuverable and capable of withstanding high-impact applications with little downtime required for repairs. The powerful on-board processor, RGB-D and optical flow cameras enable high-quality on-board video processing. As well as streaming for real-time monitoring.
The QDrone is only available as part of the Autonomous Vehicles Research Studio.
| Specifications | |
| Dimensios | 40 x 40 x 15 cm |
| Weight (with batteries) | ~1000 g |
| Max Payload | ~300 g |
| Power | 3S 11.1V LiPo (3300mAh) with XT60 connector |
| Flight time | ~11 minutes for hover per battery charge |
| Onboard Computer | Intel Aero Compute Board – Intel Atom x7-Z8750 |
| Quad-core 64-bit 2.56 GH z processor | |
| 4 GB LPDDR3-1600 RAM | |
| Expandable I/O | PWM (8x) |
| UART (2x) | |
| SPI (3x SS pins ) | |
| I²C | |
| ADC (4x) | |
| Encoder input (3x) | |
| CPU GPIO (5x) | |
| Cameras | |
| Intel RealSense (R200) | Depth sensing: 3-4 m |
| Vision: 640×480 @ 60 FPS or 1080p @ 30FPS | |
| Omnivision OV7251 | VGA |
| 640×480 @ 120 FPS | |
