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Figure 3: Congratulations to the winning team from NXP Singapore:
Matthias Viertler, Kevin Chia, Audrey Eng, Liew Boon Yeow, TP Chew,
Steven Neo, Srinivasa Rao Chilaka,and Anadaraman Sankaran (not
pictured)
HOVERGAMES DRONE SYSTEM
SOLUTION
I.MX RT CROSSOVER
MCUs
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Future developments (i.MX RT, i.MX 8M, and i.MX
8M plus devices, UAVCAN, BMS–and the future of
autonomous systems)
At NXP, a small mobile robotics team (Figure 3) prepares
solutions for drones and rovers. Although competitions such
as HoverGames might be fun, it is still a serious business to
get more developers engaged in robotics. NXP is working to
demonstrate the value of high reliability and functionally safe
components from NXP in these vehicles.
New experimental development boards and enablement are
always being prepared:
• RDDRONE-BMS772 an experimental battery management
system for small robotics
• UCANS32K146 multipurpose CAN-FD and UAVCAN V1.0
development node
• An optimized PX4 flight controller is taking advantage of the
600MHz i.MX RT1060 crossover MCU performance
It takes time to develop these specialized tools and prepare
code in collaboration with the PX4 community before they are
available as standard development tools. Contact HoverGames@
nxp.com if you think you are ready to be an early adopter.
There are, of course, plenty of off-the-shelf development tools as
well, such as the i.MX RT1060 and i.MX RT1010 EVKs crossover
MCUs. They are excellent options for multicore flight controllers,
brushless direct current (BLDC) motor controllers, or other
peripherals where you can get raw gigahertz performance at an
attractive price.
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