NEO 3 Pro GPS

NEO 3 pro is DroneCAN standard GPS developed by CUAV. It integrates industrial-grade compass, barometer, autopilot status light, buzzer, and safety switch all in one package. It has the characteristics of high safety and strong interference resistance.It integrates ublox m9n module and can receive signals from GPS, Galileo, GLONASS and Beidou at the same time.

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Note

NEO 3 pro is supported in ArduPilot 4.0 firmware (and higher).

Key Features

  • Processor

    • STM32F412

  • Sensors

    • Compass:RM3100

    • Barometer:MS5611

  • RTK Receiver

    • Ublox M9N

  • GNSS Bands

    • GPS/QZSS L1 C/A,GLONASS L10F ,BeiDou B1I,Galileo E1B/C,SBAS L1 C/A: WAAS, EGNOS, MSAS, GAGAN

  • Number of concurrent GNSS

    • 4 Simultaneous reception of satellite information

  • Number of satellites(MAX)

    • Up to 32

  • Nav. update rate

    • RTK Up to 25HZ

  • Position accuracy

    • 1.5M(use sbas;default)

    • 2.0M(not sbas

  • Acquisition

    • Cold starts 24 s

    • Aided starts 2 s

    • Reacquisition 2 s

  • Sensitivity

    • Tracking & Nav -167 dBm

    • Cold starts -148 dBm

    • Reacquisition -160 dBm

  • Protocol

    • DroneCAN

  • Interface Type

    • GHR-04V-S

  • Input voltage

    • 5V

  • Operating temperature

    • -10~70℃

  • Size

    • 60x60x16mm

  • Weight

    • 33g

Purchase

You can buy it from CUAV store.

Connect to CUAV v5+

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Note

The connection to other autopilots is similar.

Enable CAN port, DroneCAN, and Configure for NEO-V2 Pro

See CAN Bus Setup and DroneCAN Setup for more information.

Set the following parameters in all parameter tables of Mission planner and restart after writing

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NEO 3 pro is now ready for operation

SLCAN Interface

If you need to set up NEO 3 pro or upgrade its firmware, you need to enable SLCAN

Note

ArduPilot 4.0 or later firmware supports SLCAN.

  • Please connect NEO 3 pro to the autopilot’s CAN1 interface.

  • Open mission planner and connect autopilot.

Modify the following parameters in the Full Parameter tab of Mission Planner.

for CUAV V5+/nano:

Note

CUAVV5 / NANO / FMUV5 autopilot running ArduPilot4.0 or later firmware will have two USB interfaces, one is autopilot’s console port (SERIAL0) running MAVLINK and one is an SLCAN interface port; if there are not two ports showing in the Mission Planner Comm Port drop-down box, please uninstall the driver and reinstall. If you continue to have problems, see Troubleshooting Composite Connections

For Pixhawk series / FMUv2 / FMU V3 / FMU V4

Note

STM32F4 does not support dual virtual USB ports, so autopilots using STM32F4 processor can only be used for SLCAN after the MAVLink connection on USB is closed; after writing the above settings, the USB interface becomes an SCLAN port; MAVLink connections can be made again after a reboot. Until then the USB connection can be used for SLCAN operations.

NEO-V2 Internal Configuration

ArduPilot supports setting DroneCAN device internal settings through SLCAN, such as modifying node ID; enabling / disabling barometer, etc.

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  1. Select the COMM port corresponding to SLCAN.

  2. Select the DroneCAN section under Initial Setup>Optional Hardware tab.

  3. Click “SLCAN NODE CAN1” and

  4. Click “Inspector”

  5. Change configuration parameters for DroneCAN device

Enable barometer

  • Baro_enabled=1, 0=disabled

  • Reboot

Modify device ID

  • Modify the CAN_NODE parameter

Upgrade Firmware

Method One: Firmware upgrade using Mission planner

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  1. Select the COMM port corresponding to SLCAN.

  2. Click “SLCAN NODE CAN1” on the DroneCAN section under Initial Setup>Optional Hardware tab.

  3. Click “Update”

  4. Select “NO” in the pop-up prompt box (Tes is to select online firmware; No selects local firmware).

  5. Select firmware file.

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  • Wait for the flash process to complete.

Method Two:

Upgrade with DroneCAN GUI TOOL software

DroneCAN GUI TOOL.

  • Select the device port corresponding to SLCAN and click “ok”

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  • Click “√”; then double-click on the device information (marked in Figure 2 below).

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  • Click “update firmware”, the message box will pop up “yes”.

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  • The mode/heakth/uptime entry becomes “SOftware_update”

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  • Waiting for firmware write to complete.

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More information

CUAV docs.