

QDrone 2
Quanser innovation unleashed in the autonomous vehicle research space
The Quanser QDrone 2 autonomous air vehicle is a midsized quadrotor equipped with a powerful on-board NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX system-on-module (SOM), multiple high resolution cameras and built-in WiFi. This open-architecture research-grade drone is tuned to accelerate your innovation in multi-agent, swarm, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and vision-based applications.
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Research Studio
The Autonomous Vehicles Research Studio comes with everything you need to jumpstart your research.
Vehicles
- QDrone 2
- QBot Platform (Optional)
Control Ground Station
- High-performance computer:
Intel® Core i7
NVIDIA RTX Graphics card
32 GB DDR4 RAM
- 3 monitors
- USB flight controller joystick
- High performance router
Studio Equipment
- Natural Point Optitrack Flex 13
- Battery chargers
- Protective net
- Protective floor tiles
- Ground camera
Product Details
Dimensions | 50 x 50 x 15 cm |
Weight (with batteries) | ~1500 g |
Max Payload | ~300 g |
Power | 4S 14.8V LiPo (3700mAh) with XT60 connector |
Flight time | 7-8 minutes for hover per battery charge |
Onboard Computer | NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX SOM (powered by a 6-Core NVIDIA Carmel ARM v8.2 64-Bit processor) |
384-core NVIDIA Volta GPU with 48 Tensor Cores | |
8 GB 128-bit LPDDR4x RAM | |
Expandable I/O | PWM (2x) |
UART (2x) | |
SPI (2x SS pins ) | |
I²(2x) | |
ADC (1x) | |
Encoder input (2x) | |
CPU GPIO (6x) | |
Intel® RealSense™ ((D435) | Depth sensing: (3 metre range) |
RGB (1920X1080) @ 30 FPS) | |
Omnivision OV9281 | Grayscale (1280×800 @ 120 FPS or 640×480 @ 180 FPS) |
Sony IMX219 | 3x RGB CSI 160 deg FOV wide angle lenses Cameras providing side and back view |
21 FPS to 120 FPS | |
On board sensors | 2x 6-DOF IMU (gyroscope and accelerometer), 1x Optical Flow sensor, 1x ToF height sensor |
Connectivity | WiFi 802.11a/b/g/n/ac 867Mbps with dual antennas 1x Micro HDMI port for external monitor support |
Supported Software and APIs |
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