DJI Guidance for Matrice 100

Overview
Guidance is a revolutionary visual sensing system. With a powerful processing core, integrated visual cameras, ultrasonic sensors, and the most advanced computer vision algorithms in the world, Guidance protects your platform and gives you a new level of safety and confidence in flight. Guidance includes five sensor modules and one central processor.

High-Precision Vision Positioning
Even without GPS, achieve hovering that is accurate to within centimeters. Even when flying at high speeds, high-precision stereo algorithms provide positioning information over nearly any terrain. Guidance’s vision positioning system is effective at altitudes of up to 65 feet (20 meters).

HIGH-PRECISION VISUALODOMETER
Specifically designed for developers, the High-Precision Visual Odometer measures the velocity of the Guidance to an accuracy of within centimeters. This includes the measurements of how the Guidance moves in the local environment. It enables developers to build customized applications on all kinds of intelligent robots.

SENSOR DATA
Outputs rich sensor data, including ultrasonic sensors, images and IMU readings. These are provided on demand, enabling developers to explore unlimited usage of Guidance in different areas.

3D SENSING
People can program their own application to get information from the Guidance, which can sense the 3D world by calculating the dense depth images in real-time. The depth of most pixels in the field of view are depicted to an accuracy of within a few centimeters. This gives Guidance the capability to interact with the real world, and enables developers to build all kinds of customized 3D applications.

OBSTACLE SENSING IN EVERY DIRECTION
When used with a DJI flight controller, Guidance can tell your flight system to automatically avoid a collision, even at high speeds. Guidance continuously scans the nearby environment and detects obstacles by vision and ultrasonic sensors in real-time. With these vision sensors, a large variety of obstacles are sensed with high accuracy at a long range, and ultrasonic sensors work together with these vision sensors to identify harder-to-detect objects such as glass and tree leaves.

MULTI-SENSOR FUSION
Data from all five Guidance sensors is fused automatically. Guidance automatically selects monocular or stereo vision algorithms to achieve the best performance for positioning. This means if there is an insufficiency of information from one direction, it does not affect the whole system.

HIGH-PRECISION VISION POSITIONING SYSTEM
For a flying system, such as the Matrice 100, Guidance achieves vision positioning without GPS. Even when flying at high speeds, Guidance provides high-precision positioning information over almost any terrain with an accuracy of a few centimeters.
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HIGHLY POWERFUL COMPUTATIONAL PLATFORM
The highly powerful computational platform consists of sophisticated technology, such as various FPGA-based hardware acceleration modules and two ARM Cortex-A9 cores. This enables the Guidance system to process videos from ten cameras in real-time and reconfigurable for future updates.

Obstacle Sensing in Every Direction
Guidance continuously scans the nearby environment and detects obstacles in real time. When used with a DJI flight controller, it can tell your flight system to automatically avoid collision, even at high speeds.

SDK
Guidance is fully compatible with the DJI SDK and supports multiple interfaces for easy data export. Developers are free to create customized applications and expand the use of Guidance’s visual and ultrasonic sensors to suit any need.

Compatible Flight Platforms
Guidance is fully compatible with the DJI Matrice series flight platforms.

USB
Export velocity data, obstacle distance data, IMU data, ultrasonic data, grey-scale images, and depth images.

UART
Export velocity data, obstacle distance data, IMU data, and ultrasonic data.

Velocity Data
Support for aircraft velocity information output.

Obstacle Distance Data
Support for obstacle distance data output from all five sensors.

Ultrasonic Data
Support for ultrasonic data output from all five sensors.

Grey-scale Image
Support for grey-scale image output from all five sensors.

Obstacle Distance Data
Support for obstacle distance data output from all five sensors.

IMU Data
Support for IMU data output, including acceleration, attitude data, etc.

Depth Image
Support for dense depth image output from all five sensors.