In the next decade, with the empowerment of artificial intelligence, 5G and cloud computing, drone operations will be officially "fully automated". Leading this automation revolution is the automatic flight operation system with the UAV airport as the core carrier. Uav airport has also become a blue ocean for the development of global UAV industry.
Recently, Guangzhou Huakel Technology Co., Ltd. announced the launch of vehicle-mounted UAV airport. Compared with the fixed airport, which currently dominates the mainstream, the vehicle-mounted airport can cope with the application scenarios of a wide range of mobile operations, and is suitable for power grid, water conservancy, photovoltaic, petrochemical, pipeline, transportation and other scenarios, greatly improving the productivity of inspection operations in various industries.
According to the relevant person in charge of Warcol, this set of vehicle-mounted airport flight system applied in power grid inspection can improve the work efficiency up to 100%. In order to promote the application of unmanned aerial vehicle airport, Warhol is now open to the government, enterprises and public institutions of various industries for free experience application, and provides flexible rental scheme of on-demand rental.
Vehicle airport power grid inspection efficiency doubled
It is understood that UAV has been widely used in the field of power grid inspection, but there are a lot of pain points in efficiency. In the process of operation, inspection personnel need to complete a series of preparatory work, such as assembly and self-inspection, and then control the UAV to observe the key components of the ptower and take photos, and then analyze the photos carefully. This requires inspectors to have professional flight skills (also known as "professional fliers") and rich experience in transmission inspection. And such high skill requirements, for the transmission and distribution enterprises, it means high labor costs and training costs.
In addition, after each flight, inspection personnel have to replace batteries, take off again and other operations, which is time-consuming and laborious, and outdoor charging is a big problem. After completing the inspection, drive to the next area and repeat the above workflow. It can be seen that although the UAV has been greatly improved in safety and efficiency compared with the traditional inspection method of manual tower climbing in the past, it can hardly be called automation and will still waste considerable working time in each work link.
The vehicle-mounted UAV flight system can fully automate the above operation process. After the 3D point cloud record of the power tower is completed for the first time, the power transmission and distribution enterprise can send the task plan of the flight route remotely. The inspection staff can start the inspection task with one click of the car APP, and the UAV will automatically take off from the car and carry out the inspection task independently.
The UAV uses AI image recognition algorithm to accurately identify targets, collect image information of inspection targets, and send it back to the cloud through 5G network to automatically analyze and detect defects, and issue inspection reports.
When the power is nearly exhausted, the UAV will automatically return to the vehicle-mounted airport, and automatically change the power through the mechanical arm without any manual intervention. After 2 minutes, it can take off again and put into operation. The replaced battery will be recharged automatically in the car for the next use.
After the inspection is completed, the staff can drive to the next place. The UAV does not need to return to the departure point, but directly follows the vehicle to the next place, lands directly in the process of the vehicle, automatically changes the battery and takes off, and starts the inspection operation in the next area.
Compared with the traditional UAV inspection, the vehicle-mounted airport system does not need professional pilot operation, realizing automatic continuous operation, and the comprehensive operation efficiency can be increased by more than 100%. This lower threshold automation solution makes it possible for UAV power grid inspection to be applied on a large scale.
Low cost, high efficiency and broad application prospect
As can be seen from the above application cases, vehicle-mounted airport has huge application potential and broad market prospects. Compared with fixed UAV airports, vehicle-mounted airports have the following three advantages:
First, the operation range is large. The intelligent flight companion can realize the continuous operation in a large range and improve the efficiency of inspection. Take river inspection as an example. In the river tens or even hundreds of kilometers long, the UAV continuously flies in the air to record the information of navigation markers and conduct river surveying and mapping.
Second, high mobility, vehicle-mounted airport flexibility is very high, especially suitable for military and police departments to perform emergency tasks. For example, traffic police on highways can release drones to capture offending vehicles, check road conditions and direct traffic through loudspeakers.
Third, low cost, fixed airport operation radius is limited, often need to arrange multiple equipment, in order to achieve regional coverage. And the vehicle airport through mobile operation, can replace the role of multiple fixed airports to a certain extent, the cost is lower.
Warkor: The first intelligent companion flight
WK-AC100, the first vehicle UAV automatic airport launched by Wacol, is one of the few equipped with UAV intelligent accompanying flight function at present. According to the introduction, the system has the following three significant advantages:
Accurate landing, truly available: Warkor vehicle-borne airport is equipped with the R1000 UAV independently developed by the company. It adopts high-precision RTK positioning technology, and the landing success rate is much higher than that of similar products in the market, which prevents the risk of aircraft explosion and is truly reliable and practical.
First mobile accompanying flight: Currently the only mobile accompanying flight in the market, applicable to power grid, river, traffic and other large-scale continuous operation scenarios, double the efficiency, cost reduction and efficiency.
Full stack self-developed, powerful function: Unlike similar products that can only match the UAV from third-party manufacturers, Warhol is one of the few manufacturers in the industry that realize the simultaneous self-developed airport + UAV, so as to ensure the consistency and reliability of the automatic flight system.
Interpretation of WK-AC100 vehicle-borne airport characteristics
Anti-turbulence, ultra-durable: high seismic design, can adapt to complex outdoor environment road conditions, effectively protect the equipment in the cabin.
2) Nine-hour continuous operation time: The system carries four sets of UAV batteries and is equipped with a backup power supply up to 7.2KWh, which can be recharged for 6 sorties.
3)5G network and cloud processing: This system is equipped with AI visual navigation algorithm, enabling the UAV to accurately identify inspection targets and carry out dynamic tracking and shooting. After the data collection is completed, it will be automatically uploaded to the vehicle terminal server and command center through 5G network.
4) Breakpoint continued flight: After the UAV takes off, it can realize breakpoint continued flight and quickly resume operations.
5) Land in different places with flight: the UAV can automatically return to the airport in different places without returning to the departure point, saving the distance and doubling the operating radius
6) Special vehicle-mounted APP: support task planning and design, one-button operation. Operators can watch the operation of the UAV in real time through the vehicle monitoring platform.
Extension reading: Wacol - deep industrial UAV for many years of the old manufacturer
Guangzhou Huakel Technology Co., Ltd. was founded in 2001, is a professional engaged in UAV research and development, production, sales and technical services in one of the high-tech enterprises, deep in the industry for many years, the products are widely distributed in the police security, fire rescue, agricultural plant protection, patrol reconnaissance, remote sensing surveying and mapping, electric patrol, maritime rescue, intelligent flight, unattended and other fields With more than 300 in-service scientific research/engineering/production personnel. The company has obtained more than 300 invention patents, utility model patents and software Copyrights at home and abroad.
