1200 companies jointly delivered Chinese drone , reflecting the improvement of comprehensive national strength
drone is not only for civilian use, but also for military use, and dual support for national strength. In recent years, with the prosperity of the drone industry, more and more up-and-coming shows have become the new force in this field.
Data from the National Bureau of Statistics shows that in 2017, my country's civilian drones output reached 2.9 million, a year-on-year increase of 67%. Behind this figure is the report card jointly delivered by more than 1,200 companies engaged in the research and development and production of drone complete aircraft and their close components.
Automator field has entered the red ocean stage at this stage. The strong desire to survive has allowed many manufacturers to do their best to occupy a place in the consumer-grade drone market that shows exponential growth. At the same time, the word "R&D" comes from higher ideals and ideologies, and has gradually existed invisible.
"You have Zhang Liang's plan, I have a wall ladder." Whether it is old bottles of new wine, soup or medicine, they all have their own "one trick". This is the phased result of motivation and competition, and it will be the future. Let’s look at the “three longs and two shorts” of the top ten brands of drones.
1. The three advantages of "DJI"
1. A pioneer in drone control and aerial photography imaging system, a one-stop service provider from multi-axis gimbal to high-definition image transmission, was selected as the "2017 "MIT Technology Review".
2. DJI drone has occupied 70% of the global market share, thereby increasing the confidence of the "world factory" in drones and raising the threshold for civilian drones.
3. A model of innovative technology in China, with more than 5,000 patents applied for and published, and a total of more than 1,800 authorized patents, including more than 200 authorized patents in the United States.
2. The three advantages of "Parrot"
1. This is a high-tech company from France, headquartered in Paris. It was founded by Henri Seydoux in 1994. It is committed to creating, developing and selling high-tech wireless products for consumers and professionals.
2. In 2015, Parrot officially divested its vehicle business due to its outstanding performance in the drone business and became a truly drone enterprise. Its products involve agriculture, 3D modeling, surveying and mapping, and public safety.
3. The fashion capital Paris gives it extraordinary in innovation and has outstanding features in chip design and software development. Its core competitiveness in speech recognition, signal processing, noise attenuation, etc.
3. Three major advantages of "AEE Yidian Technology"
1. A world-leading drone manufacturer, an electronic technology company integrating professional research and development, production and sales, with "military technology, innovative spirit" as its core competitiveness.
2. Focusing on the research, production and sales of equipment-grade UAV system , high-end intelligent optoelectronic systems, high-end carbon fiber products and other products. The products are widely used in the four major fields of military, police, industry and civilian use.
3. AEE-Electronic Airlines has obtained military salary qualifications such as national military standard quality system certification, and has participated in the editing of four national drone standards and written seven industry standards for drone, including more than 600 patents such as invention and PCT international patents.
4. Three advantages of "Zhendi Technology PowerVision"
1. Zhendi takes "Innovate the Future" as the company's theme and takes "Technology + Art" as the product concept. The product not only has strong innovation and technical content, but also has a high recognition of its industrial design.
2. In the field of unmanned systems, the series of enterprise-level drone products independently developed by Zhendi Technology, four-rotor PowerQuad, helicopter PowerCopter and fixed-wing PowerEye are gradually being used in agricultural plant protection, power, surveying and mapping, petroleum minerals, police use, rescue and other fields.
3. In April 2019, the water robot "PowerDolphin" launched by Zhendi won the highest honorary gold medal of the "2019 American Edison Invention Award". This is the first time that a Chinese company has won the highest award for the Edison Award, known as the "Oscar in the technology industry".
5. The three advantages of "Jifei XAG"
1. Jifei adheres to the concept of "using technology to improve life and production methods", explores the forefront of drone applications and is widely used in agriculture, geographic information and logistics fields.
2. In March 2018, Jifei Technology's P series plant protection drone successfully won the Red Dot Award Red Dot Design Award, and became the first product in the global agricultural plant protection field to win the "Red Dot Award".
3. Plant protection drones are a sub-industry that Jifei Technology has precisely studied. Jifei Technology operates 21,731 plant protection drones worldwide, and more than 28,000 certified plant protection drones operators have been reported.
6, "Yehang Ehang" three major advantages
1. It is formed by a maker who loves flying in China, the United States and the New Zealand. The core members are from internationally renowned universities such as Tsinghua University, Peking University , and the United States Duke .
2. With continuous technological and product innovation and intelligent interconnection innovative thinking, users provide users with simple, intelligent, safe and efficient aircraft products and solutions.
3. Its Ghost is the world's first intelligent aerial robot that is truly controlled by mobile phones. It is widely used in geographic information surveying, film and television aerial photography, emergency disaster relief, reconnaissance and surveillance.
7. Three advantages of "Zhongke Remote Sensing ChinaRS"
1. The Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, is committed to developing emerging industries with strategic emerging industries for satellite and remote sensing applications.
2. It is a remote sensing satellite demonstration base of the National Development and Reform Commission, a result transformation base of the National Engineering Laboratory for Remote Sensing Satellite Application, an industrialization base of the National Remote Sensing Application Engineering Technology Center, a remote sensing cloud service center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a high-resolution ground observation system, a high-score data and service center of Hebei.
3. In the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008, the Zhongyao (RSA) drone was put into aerial survey emergency for the first time, becoming the first true "drone remote sensing application" in my country. Since then, China's drone is opened as a low-altitude remote sensing platform.
8. The three major advantages of "Yuneec Haoxiang"
1. It has always been a world leader in the electric aviation industry and is currently the only drone manufacturer with general aviation technology, capabilities and resources.
2. has obtained hundreds of patents. With the support of its core technology, YUNEEC Haoxiang has successively launched manned aircraft, drones, and its main product in the market - wireless remote-controlled aircraft.
3. On April 28, the 8th Asian Sands Competition was held in Tengger Desert . Two drones from YUNEEC - Typhoon H Plus and H520 - assisted in providing full-time shooting. In an environment with wind power of 7, the performance of the whole process was excellent. This is thanks to the new IMU packaging method and the design of the PX4 flight control platform and six-rotor, making it more suitable for various complex outdoor environments.
9. The three major advantages of "Yiwatt"
1. my country's earliest public companies with civil drones as the main business, their business scope covers the entire industrial chain of civil drones. Their ultra-large load capacity and ultra-long battery life can be widely used in the actual needs of various industries.
2. It has the first drone training institution and examination center in China recognized by the Civil Aviation Administration. It has obtained municipal R&D and provincial technology dual centers, and has mastered six complete core technologies.
3. More than 500 patents have been applied for in total, and a large number of technological innovations have been converted into new products. Among them, new products such as "oil-moving variable distance multi-rotor" and "co-axial double-scalder multi-rotor" have been recognized by the market.
10. The three advantages of "Walkera"
1. Huakera has initially established a complete ecological chain integrating R&D, production and sales, has core technologies and a global customer base, and has gained a high influence in the domestic and international markets.
2. Focus on the research and development and sales of a full set of personalized and miniaturized consumer-grade drone solutions, and also provides complete solutions for professional fields such as agriculture, fire protection, land and resource measurement, and energy industries.
3. The company owns two sub-brands walkera and devention. It has now established a wholly-owned subsidiary in North America and Europe. Its products are exported to more than 100 countries and regions around the world, providing global users with high-quality personalized drone consumer products.
has armor and weaknesses. Summary of the shortcomings of DJI drones
As my country's drones enter the 3.0 era, my country has become one of the global leaders in this field. Whether in the civil and military fields, it is worthy of cheering for such phenomenal performance.
But the current development status of "high fever" will inevitably arise. Even the bravest warriors will have their weaknesses, even the DJI drone that is ahead of the world.
First of all, in terms of strength, DJI's current product technology still has room for improvement, and DJI's consumer-grade drones also have three fears: fear of the urban environment, fear of bad weather, and fear of interference when flying.
Secondly, DJI has two major pain points:
1. It is still in the "cultivation" stage in the field of industrial-grade drones. Although it has entered the industrial-grade market fields such as agricultural plant protection and testing, it is nothing more than comparable to its competitors who maintain a leading position in the segmented market in a short period of time.
2. For DJI, which has many fans in the consumer-grade drone market, DJI needs to have a strong after-sales service system to support it. However, DJI has not done satisfactory in this regard, and its service quality needs to be further improved.
is very good at seeing the big picture. Although DJI’s problems may not be a problem that other companies are bound to exist, this also reflects the current situation of the civil drone industry.
At this stage, although the market prospects for domestic drones are broad, the development of domestic drone companies has a certain tendency to homogeneously, and drone companies are showing a mixed situation.
As far as technical level is concerned, all drones currently have the following four problems that need to be solved urgently
1. Battery life: The drones on the market mainly use lithium polymer batteries as the main power, and their battery life is generally between 20 minutes and 30 minutes. Due to different technical solutions of drones and different battery life, drones need to reduce the takeoff weight as much as possible, so they cannot carry heavier large-capacity batteries. After most drones have to replace the battery or plug in the charging cable after they have been effectively flying for 20 minutes. This is a fatal shortcoming for drones, which greatly limits the rapid and healthy development of the industry, and it is imminent to solve the imminent battery life of drones.
2. Communication system: UAV communication system, currently mainly uses 900MHz, 1.4GHz, and 2.4GHz radio frequency bands, of which 1.4GHz is mainly used as the data communication frequency band, 2.4GHz is mainly used as the image transmission frequency band, and 900MHz is not recommended. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has formulated radio-related usage guidelines to regulate the use of radio frequency bands in the drone industry. The public radio communication link has weak anti-interference ability, especially the synchronous interference cannot be avoided. With the exponential growth of the number of drones, the problem of interference in drone communication systems will become increasingly prominent.
3. Positioning navigation: The positioning navigation of the drone system generally adopts GPS and Beidou dual-mode mode. GPS positioning is divided into code positioning and carrier positioning. The code positioning speed is fast, with a general civilian accuracy of 3-10 meters and a military accuracy of 0.3 meters; the carrier positioning speed is slow, regardless of civilian or military use. The positioning accuracy of the Beidou system is 10-20 meters. Based on the drone positioning system of navigation satellite , major drone manufacturers optimize their own algorithms to make the accuracy barely reach the meter level. However, due to objective conditions such as terrain and weather, navigation satellite signals are prone to interference and insufficient accuracy and stability need to be solved.
4. Obstacle Avoidance: Obstacle Avoidance technology is crucial for mainstream drone flight, but the existing solutions are still in the exploration stage. To ensure public safety, continuous improvements in sensors, sensing algorithms and drone design are needed. There are four main solutions for UAV obstacle avoidance technology: infrared sensor solution, ultrasonic sensor solution, laser sensor solution and vision sensor solution. Until the problem of obstacle avoidance of unmanned vehicles driving on the ground is completely solved, drone obstacle avoidance technology still has a long way to go.
Conclusion
The future drone field may not be blue. If you enter this industry, you need to survive by your ability and continue to become popular by your strength.
"If anyone has nothing, I have it, I have it, I have it." It is also suitable for many drone manufacturers that have fought in the "five-dimensional fields" of sea, land, aerospace and electricity. The high-tech geek style is an important reason why all technology companies do not fall into the "mortal world".
All around the world, no "businessman" who is not very popular can really be interested in doing "research and development".
(text/Bitan Waiyan)
