The VECTOR is UAV Navigation's most advanced autopilot. Housed in a rugged, MIL SPEC aluminium casing, its key features are:
High-end ADHRS-INS core.
Dual 850MIPS CPUs (each with 256MB program flash).
FPGA.
Extensive I/O capabilities .
Real Time Operating System (RTOS).
VECTOR is a robust and dependable unit, with built-in physical and logical redundancy; this allows it to survive all individual sensor failures while maintaining accurate estimates of attitude and position. For this reason VECTOR has rapidly become the autopilot of choice for high value fixed wing, rotary wing and target UAVs.
VECTOR features an RTOS. In essence, the key advantage of an RTOS is its predictability and the fact that non-critical functions are never allowed to slow down more important tasks, such as flight control. This leads to a safer, more reliable system.
VECTOR can host UAV Navigation’s mission and flight control software or that of the customer, making it a superb avionics development platform. Its processor core is compatible with commercially available certified avionics operating systems.
A Software Development Kit (SDK) version is available for developers wanting to write their own code.