Fancinnov
About
About Fancinnov
Fancinnov was founded in March 2019 and operates a Beijing research headquarters with a southern R&D centre in Guangzhou. The company develops cross-modal robot-control technology and reports mass production of the FanciSwarm and FanciSwarm Pro micro-drone families, Mcontroller flight controllers and Mlink communications modules. Its platforms target university research, robot control, intelligent perception, unmanned-system validation and inspection.
FanciSwarm is a palm-sized, brushless micro-UAV built for swarm experiments, education and robotics research. It separates the Mcontroller from the airframe so the controller can be reused on other robot platforms, exposes interfaces for secondary development and supports ROS. A distributed UWB positioning system provides indoor or outdoor localisation without an external computer, while multiple Korthos supply records capture its flight-control, compute, ranging, lidar and camera inputs.
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Supply chain relationships
- Livox
Inbound - Perception - Fancinnov states the assembled Pro Lidar Kit includes a Livox Mid-360 lidar
Source - RealSense
Inbound - Perception - Fancinnov states the assembled Depth Vision Kit includes a RealSense D435 camera
Source - NVIDIA
Inbound - Compute & Control - Fancinnov's Depth Vision Kit ships assembled with a selected NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX or Nano module
Source - NVIDIA
Inbound - Compute & Control - Fancinnov's Monocular Vision Kit ships assembled with a selected NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX or Nano module
Source - Qorvo
Inbound - Connectivity - Fancinnov FanciSwarm drones and positioning base stations integrate Qorvo DWM1000 UWB modules
Source - NVIDIA
Inbound - Compute & Control - Fancinnov's Pro Lidar Kit ships assembled with a selected NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX or Nano module
Source - Intel
Inbound - Perception - Intel supplies Intel RealSense D435 stereo depth camera for FanciSwarm Depth Vision Kit
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Events
- 2024-05-13 - Demonstration - Fancinnov showcases the FanciSwarm swarm drone at ICRA 2024
Fancinnov brought its FanciSwarm miniature swarm drone to ICRA 2024 in Yokohama, held from 13–17 May 2024. The company describes FanciSwarm as a research and education platform built around its own Mcontroller flight controller and UWB positioning system. The platform supports trajectory flight, swarm flight, ROS development, and motion-capture integration, making the appearance directly relevant to robotics research and experimentation.
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