ARKV6X Flight Controller Extended Range Context

Market context

U. S. -built, NDAA-compliant Pixhawk/FMUV6X flight controller for drones and robotic vehicles.

  • Target environment: UAVs, Blue Framework drone programs, autonomous aircraft and robotic vehicle controllers
  • Workflow context: Flight control, inertial sensing, PX4/ArduPilot autopilot integration and PAB carrier-board architectures
  • Customer context: Drone builders and defense-adjacent integrators needing open autopilot standards with U.S.-built electronics.
  • Deployment model: Commercial flight-controller module for UAV developers and integrators needing extended-range autopilot hardware.
  • Commercial maturity: Commercial product with public firmware, sensor, MCU and power details.
  • Adoption constraints: Requires a Pixhawk Autopilot Bus compliant carrier and normal airworthiness/flight validation for the target platform.
  • Adjacent products: CubePilot Cube Orange+, Auterion Skynode X, ModalAI VOXL 2, CubePilot flight-controller families

Audience

UAV makers

Workflow

Flight control, inertial sensing, PX4/ArduPilot autopilot integration and PAB carrier-board architectures

Deployment environment

UAVs, Blue Framework drone programs, autonomous aircraft and robotic vehicle controllers

Specifications

  • Standards: FMUV6X and Pixhawk Autopilot Bus open source specifications
  • Firmware: PX4 Autopilot 1.14+; ArduPilot 4.5+
  • Imu: Triple Invensense IIM-42653 industrial IMUs
  • Gyroscope Range: 4000 dps extended range
  • Accelerometer Range: 32 g extended range
  • Mcu: STM32H743IIK6 MCU, 480 MHz, 2 MB Flash, 1 MB RAM
  • robotics sensors: Bosch BMP390 barometer; Bosch BMM150 magnetometer
  • Power Requirements: 5 V, 500 mA total; 300 mA main system and 200 mA heater
  • Price: $450.00

Tags

  • Peer Group: Flight Controllers, Drone Controller
  • Workflow: Drone autonomy
  • Capability: Flight control
  • Stack Layer: Compute Control Layer

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