102 Though California is already known as a major tech hub the world over, 2024 saw the ‘City in Motion’ of San Diego play host to hundreds of new tech companies from around the world, as AUVSI Xponential ran at the San Diego Convention Center from April 22 to April 25. With the uncrewed industry rapidly growing to meet demand from dozens of markets awakening to the capabilities and efficiencies that autonomous vehicles can bring them, a vast host of new products and innovations were unveiled - a selection of which we present here, in our first part of our report on Xponential 2024. Holybro exhibited a range of new avionics products, including its new Pixhawk 6X Pro flight controller, as well as its Pixhawk Jetson Baseboard. The Pixhawk 6X Pro has an STM32 H753 processor, a triple redundant IMU, and dual redundant barometer. The main IMU onboard is the Analog Devices ADIS16470 Industrial IMU, which integrates an accelerometer with an acceleration range of ± 40 g. The 6X Pro has also been engineered with a proprietary vibration isolation system, which forgoes traditional foams for a material formulated by Holybro specifically for flight control applications. Holybro claims that this new, stiffer vibration isolation is more durable, has a resonance frequency further away from a UAV’s vibration frequency, and is ideal for industrial and commercial UAV applications. Holybro has also released a new version of its Pixhawk 6X, which has triple ICM45686 IMUs. The ICM-45686 is a new Rory Jackson considers innovations he saw in San Diego in this first of a two part report from Xponential 2024 Xponential in motion June/July 2024 | Uncrewed Systems Technology The 2024 AUVSI Xponential event in San Diego achieved a 10% growth in attendance over last year’s show, 23% of those attendants hailing from outside the US
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