UgCS Skyhub
Medusa Radiometrics has a collaboration with SPH engineering. Medusa spectrometers are fully compatible with the UgCS skyhub and UgCS flight planning software.
The SkyHub - 3rd generation
SkyHub is an onboard computer designed to enhance the capabilities of commercial-off-the-shelf UAVs for industrial purposes and to support diverse sensor integration.
The 1st generation version of the SkyHub hardware was developed in 2017 to integrate a low-frequency GPR system with DJI M600 Pro drone. Since then its functions have been constantly improved, added support for more types of drones (DJI M350, M300, and M210 series as well as Cube/Pixhawk-based drones with ArduCopter and PX4 firmware), extended connectivity possibilities, more computation power, and supported sensors (GPR, methane detectors, magnetometers, metal detectors, echo sounders, etc.)
How It Works
Implementation of True Terrain Following to automatically keep constant elevation over the surface using real-time data from radar or laser altimeter. The SkyHub can supply NMEA coordinate stream to thr gamma-ray spectrometer including the GPS positions from the drone, and the altimeter readings from the height sensor that can be used to correct the spectral data to ground concentrations. Finally, the Skyhub also adds support for an external detector of obstacles to interrupt the flight and save the drone from flying against obstacles.
Compatibility
SkyHub is compatible with all popular commercial-off-the-shelf enterprise drones and platforms
DJI M350 RTK and M300 RTK
DJI M600/M600 Pro
M210/M210 V2/M210 V2 RTK
Drones based on Cube/Pixhawk autopilot with ArduCopter or PX4 firmware like InspiredFlight IF1200A, IF800, Wispr Ranger Pro, Harris Aerial Carrier H6, Skyfront Perimeter 8, DroneBase X4-1000, Hexadrone Tundra, Avartek Boxer, and many others.
For DJI drones SkyHub utilizes the standard connector for an onboard computer and uses DJI Onboard SDK to communicate with the drone.
For Cube/Pixhawk-based drones, SkyHub uses the Telem port of the autopilot and MAVLink protocol.
Power for SkyHub is provided from the drone’s main battery, and input voltage may be in the range of 12-60V covering all possible variations from relatively small drones like DJI M210 and up to heavy lifter drones with 60V internal power circuits.
More info
More information can be found on the website of SPH engineering: