The ModalAI PX4 Autonomy Developer Kit is an all-in-one autonomy development drone with long-term support for PX4. PX4 developers looking to jump-start their autonomous UAV solution can reduce their time to market with ModalAI PX4 Autonomy Developer Kit’s pre-configured autonomy platform, sensors and payloads, and computer vision and artificial intelligence capabilities. Uniform baseline development platform that anyone in the PX4 community can reference and build upon. ModalAI plans to offer this configuration through 2025. ModalAI is committed to advancing the PX4 ecosystem and plans to advance their PX4 1.14 support by working with the PX4 developer community to mainline a standard build, bolstering ROS 2 Foxy support, and maintaining a dedicated forum channel for direct communication between developers and ModalAI engineers. Ready to Use Development Tools Product Specifications Advanced autonomy Visual Inertial Odometry to navigate in GPS denied environments Visual Obstacle Avoidance to fly safely in tight spaces TFLite Neural Networks run object classification, detection, and other models SWAP-optimized 265g weight 220mm airframe 126mm folding propellers 30+ minutes flight time VOXL 2 onboard Powered by Qualcomm QRB5165: 8 cores up to 3.091GHz, 8GB LPDDR5 4K hires and CV tracking image sensors onboard Open-source software: PX4 integrated flight controller, OpenCV, ROS 2, Docker Integrated flight controller on DSP VOXL ESC Mini Technical specifications Autonomy Powered by VOXL 2 companion computer Integrated Qualcomm QRB5165 premium tier chipset onboard: 8 cores up to 3.091 GHz, 8GB LPDDR5 VOXL ESC Mini Open-source software: OpenCV, ROS2, Docker, PX4 Integrated WiFi and ELRS Perception CV Tracking image sensor for visual inertial odometry (VIO) localization 4K Hi-Res for real time streaming, RGB image capture and video recording SWAP-optimized Design 265g take-off weight 220mm diagonal SWaP-optimized carbon fiber airframe 126mm folding propellers 30+ minutes of flight time
