Pixhack Manual PDF

Pixhack English guide
Pixhack, a 32-bit open source hardware flight control, based on Pixhawk

hardware architecture platform ,designed and produced by CUAV. As the main
architectural hardware the same with pix, so fully compatible with the 3DR APM
firmware and pix native firmware.
Based on original pix, Pixhack Optimized the power supply chip,reduced

unnecessary interface, adjusted and optimized the interface, changed the plug
wire direction.
The highlights of Pixhack is the IMU separation of innovative design, built-in small
general damping structure,and adopted the CNC milling into an organic whole
type craft, anti-interference and stability has a qualitative improvement.
After a year design, countless versions of optimization and testing, Pixhack has
reached more than a stable and ideal effect.
The hardware parameters introduction:
The processor :
1, 32-bit 2M flash STM32F427 Cortex M4, With hardware floating-point processing unit
Frequency: 168MHZ，256K RAM
2, 32-bit STM32F103 backup co-processor .
Built-in sensors:
Pixhack using separation of innovative design, built-in damping commonality, general aircraft
don't need to do shock treatment (if the vibration is too large and with high frequency then still
need to do damping )
1, L3GD20 three-axis digital 16 bit gyroscope

2,LSM303D three-axis ,14 bit accelerometer/ magnetometer
3,MPU6000 6 axis accelerometer/magnetometer
4,MS5611 High precision barometer
Work environment and the voltage:

Temperature range: - 5 ~ 50 degrees
PM sensor , operating voltage : 2-6S
PM sensor output voltage : 5.4V 3A
PWM OUT input power supply voltage : 9V Highest (support high pressure actuator,
and the original Pixhawk does not support the power supply above 5.5 V )
Two-way power supply automatic redundancy(PM interface and PWM OUT
interface) ,PM interface preferred power supply, malfunction automatically switch
to the PWM OUT interface power supply.
Appearance size:
Main flight control size : 68mmX44mmX15MM
Weight : 68g
Data interface :
1, five UART, A compatible with high voltage , two with the hardware flow control
2, One CAN
3, Spektrum DSM/DSM2/DSM-X Satellite receiver compatible with the input
4, Futaba SBUS compatible with the input and output
5, PPM signal input
6,RSSI (PWM or voltage) input
7,I2C Protocol device extension
8, Reserve a SPI interface
9, 3.3 and 6.6 VADC input
10, External MICRO USB interface
11,13 PWM/Actuator output
12, Multitone buzzer and unlocking button state , led interface
Peripheral device :
1, Support Fixed wing, Multicopter , Helicopter , Car ,Boat firmware
2, Support the receiver types: S-Bus, DSM2，PPM . Note: If it is a common PWM receiver, then
need a PPM encoder .
3, Recommend the battery type: 2S ~ 6S lithium polymer battery
4, System configuration requirements: Windows XP SP3/7/8 (32 or 64 bit)
5, Support external CUAV products : MINIM OSD , CUAV 3DR Radio , DIGI XTend , CUAV RTB
BOX , MAAT tracking antenna , Optical flow sensor .
Interface introduction :
On the left :
PPM - support PPM has already sbus input
SBUS - SBUS conversion output
MAIN OUT- Main output port S1-S8, Specific wiring please take reference to the below flight
control output map
FS1-FS5- extension output interface, temporarily no definition
On the right :
POWER- PM Voltage current module port
DBUS OP - data extension
SERIAL4/5- Serial port 4 and 5 extension
RADIO-data transmission or OSD extension telem1
GPS - GPS extensions contain electronic compass
ADC&JR- ADC 3V3 Output and JR, the remote control input extension
SAFETY- unlock switch and safety button
Pixhack --The front interface detailed definition ver 1.86
SAFETY: Buzzer and unlock switch, interface

ADC&JR:Used to extend JR receiver and previous analog sensors, such as the airspeed
and ultrasound
GPS: Used to extend the GPS, built-in I2C definition, all the GPS and compass only ne
ed to insert one cable
RADIO: 57600 baud rate ,Mavlink protocol, Can pick up data transmission or mavlink
OSD
DBUS OP: The data bus extension, Specific definition see below,For example you can
extend： USB,I2C,SPI,CAN,SERIAL2 etc.
SERIAL4/5：An interface containing two serial ports, SERIAL5 can external the second G
PS ,SERIAL4 can DEBUG output (according to the software version, some firmware has
no DEBUG output)
POWER: Voltage current sensor PM interface, please note that don't connect the PM s
ensor to other interface, or it will cause burning.
LED and buzzer meaning:
 The red and blue lights flash: initialization.Please wait a moment.
 Yellow light double flash: errors.System refused to unlock.
 Blue lights flash: already locked, GPS searching the star.Automatic navigation, hover, and return
to the starting point mode need GPS lock.
 Green light flash: Has been locked, GPS lock have been obtained. Ready to unlock.
From the locked state to unlock, there will be a quick reminder with two sounds.
 Green light light long with single long sound : GPS lock and unlock.Ready to take off !
 Yellow light flash: remote fault protection is activated.
 Yellow light flash with fast repeated sound: battery fault protection is activated
 Yellow light blue lights flash with high - high - high - low sound: GPS data anomalies or GPS fa
ult protection is activated.
Pixhack safety switch meaning (green LED):

 Fast, continuous flash: execution system self-check.Please wait a moment.
 Intermittent flash: System is ready..Please press the safety switch button to activate the system.
 Often bright: ready to unlock.Can perform the unlock procedure.
Commonly used website:

http://copter.ardupilot.com/ Fixed wing
http://plane.ardupilot.com/ Multicopter
http://ardupilot.com/ Main website
Download station (download and install automatically in Chinese, no need

to install other driver, ground station can automatically install the driver)
http://ardupilot.com/downloads/?category=35
APM Planner 2.0 cross-platform ground station, Windows choose the version of Windows
http://ardupilot.com/downloads/?did=82
MissionPlanner the classic apm station
The installation process does not explain.If lack of hint. Please downloaded The corresponding versions
on website .
Download the firmware to the flight control:
APM Planner 2.0, for example, install the ground station, insert pixhack, should appear
Open MP 2.0 ground station

Ground station will automatically detect flight control ports, and display the version of the hardware
Then click on the corresponding flight control icon to go
Note: cross model and X model, are the same firmware, after download, you can set the correspondi
ng flight mode (the default is X mode)
And then will be automatically downloaded from the Internet.
Tip:
Click on the FMU reset or reinsert pixhack can automatically burn firmware to the flight control
And then automatically Erasing the board flight control firmware, finally prompt PX4 flashing is comple
te, burn out!
Because the server firmware is abroad, may failed.If unable to download firmware, you can try to use
QGC ground station to burn the firmware, local methods refer to another document: "pix
Burn local firmware"
Installed to the flight control and the initi

al calibration:
A basic flight system must contain the following parts:
1, Main control: pixhack flight control
2, The remote control: over 7 channels remote control, if it not futaba, JR or receiver with a PPM,
need to connect the PWM switch to the PPM encoder (JR compatibility to be test)
3,GPS and electronic compass
4, Wireless digital , Recommend the XBEE or 3DR Digital, Best choose XTEND
5,PM voltage current sensor built-in BEC
6, The complete aircraft contains the aerial carrier, motor , ESC ,propeller, etc .
Optional OSD video overlay system (AV camera + OSD + figure digital) , MAAT tracking antenna, etc.

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Pixhack English guide

Pixhack, a 32-bit open source hardware flight control, based on Pixhawk

Based on original pix, Pixhack Optimized the power supply chip,reduced

1, L3GD20 three-axis digital 16 bit gyroscope

Work environment and the voltage:

SAFETY: Buzzer and unlock switch, interface

 Yellow light double flash: errors.System refused to unlock.

 Yellow light flash: remote fault protection is activated.

Pixhack safety switch meaning (green LED):

 Often bright: ready to unlock.Can perform the unlock procedure.

Commonly used website:

http://ardupilot.com/ Main website

Download station (download and install automatically in Chinese, no need

Open MP 2.0 ground station

Then click on the corresponding flight control icon to go

And then will be automatically downloaded from the Internet.

Installed to the flight control and the initi

1, Main control: pixhack flight control

3,GPS and electronic compass

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