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Cube Orange+ Flight Controller

About

About Cube Orange+ Flight Controller

Cube Orange+ uses an STM32H7 main processor alongside a separate failsafe controller and multiple redundant inertial sensors. Two IMUs are mechanically isolated from vehicle vibration, while a third remains fixed as a reference; duplicated barometers and additional environmental controls improve resilience when individual measurements degrade.

The autopilot is supplied as a removable module that plugs into a carrier board containing vehicle-specific connectors and power interfaces. This separates the core flight computer from the surrounding airframe electronics and lets developers use ArduPilot or PX4 across multicopters, fixed-wing aircraft, rovers, boats and other autonomous platforms.

Research

  • Robust Control for a Slung-Mass Quadcopter Under Abrupt Velocity Changes

    2024-12-12 - Research Publication - Outdoor quadrotor experiments implement robust slung-load control on a PX4-compatible Cube Orange+ and test response to abrupt velocity changes.

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  • Track and Follow with Cube Orange+

    2024-01-04 - Research Publication - An Aalborg University engineering project implements GNSS-based track-and-follow guidance on a drone using a Cube Orange+ flight controller, ESP32 links and MAVLink commands.

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Context

Market context

Cube Orange+ is CubePilot's Pixhawk-compatible autopilot module for UAVs and robotic vehicles requiring redundant inertial sensing and flight-control electronics.

  • Target environment: Drones, UAVs, robotic vehicles, field robots, research aircraft, and autonomy prototypes using the Pixhawk ecosystem.
  • Workflow context: Flight control, vehicle stabilization, sensor fusion, command output, autopilot integration, and embedded control for robotic vehicles.
  • Customer context: Drone OEMs, robotics labs, UAV integrators, open-autopilot developers, and vehicle autonomy teams.
  • Deployment model: Autopilot module integrated with carrier boards, sensors, power systems, radios, ESCs, and vehicle-control software.
  • Commercial maturity: Commercial CubePilot module with public documentation and Pixhawk ecosystem support.
  • Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on autopilot software, carrier-board design, vibration isolation, redundancy requirements, sensor calibration, and regulatory mission needs.
  • Market position: Flight-control electronics component for aerial and field robotics.
  • Adjacent products: Nano2 Mesh Rider Radio, Halo BVLOS Connectivity Platform, Pixy LR S-Port Gimbal

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