Drone China: "North-South Faction" air

The market for drones also has two north and south factions.

North faction heavy technology, mostly with research institutes, military enterprise background, with the industry's cutting-edge technologies and research and development capabilities, its unmanned aerial vehicles in mineral exploration, coal inspection and other industries have been large-scale applications.

South faction, mostly light asset high-tech companies, a keen sense of market smell, competing to launch Low-cost multi-rotor UAV, occupy half of the consumer market.

This is not really big. Northern faction such as aerial scenery innovation, information in the distance, days Heng Xin Industry, South faction such as Xinjiang, a power, flying and so on. The founders of the drone companies, almost all of them, sat together and had business.

The North Faction Envy South faction shrewd nimble, can in the civilian consumer market kill a piece of heaven and Earth, the South faction admires the North faction the scientific research strength, can repeatedly win the scientific research, the military industry and so on big single. Long time to deal with, South sent the company's inherent shrewd characteristics, let them smell the market opportunities, began to test the industry market. And the northern company has intensified in the industry market research and development, want to hold this city.

Military team: "Transformers" quickly for high-rise fire extinguishing

In the haze of Beijing, the general manager of aviation scene innovation, Wang Wei, was wrapped in a thick down jacket, concentrating on the plane in a suburban wasteland. Under the noise of the high-powered fuel engine, a 3D hologram is coming from the computer next to it, and after a while, the image of the entire airspace nearby has been gradually formed.

The sci-fi scene is the latest achievement of Wang Wei and the team-the unmanned helicopter, which is about 30 centimeters high and wingspan to 1.6 meters, has become a small, dual-use unmanned reconnaissance aircraft after the miniature synthetic aperture lidar has been mounted. It has a full day, all-weather high-resolution detection ability, carrying capacity of 30 kg, the duration of 6 hours, even in the wind, heavy rain and other weather, can also successfully take off and complete the task.

This kind of product with strong quasi military color is a typical representative of the Northern Unmanned aerial vehicle industry, and it is related to the background of the development of military UAV in the past ten years. Prior to this, he has worked in the unmanned Aerial Vehicle Research Institute and a military unit, which specializes in the design and delivery of UAV projects, covering Egypt, the Middle East, Africa and other fields. Around 2008, he and a group of young people from the Chinese Ordnance Industry Group, Northern Industry company, left the original unit to set up the company, specifically for exploration, environmental protection and other users to build industry applications.

As a result, Wang Wei and the team to work out the Transformers-type products-capacity of 10-500 kilograms of several fuel-powered automatic cruise drones, of which the largest unmanned wingspan of 6.7 meters, Deadweight reached 400 kg, compared to the market of small private aircraft to a larger number. Its wind resistance ability can reach the 5~6 level, full load flight 6 hours, according to the needs of users, under the Pod mounted radar, coil detectors, aerial equipment, etc., in different occasions to complete the task of flying operations.

"The current order amount is more than 100 million yuan, most of the customers are minerals exploration agencies, research institutes and so on." "Wang Wei told the It times," in recent years, these types of companies in the large-scale demand for unmanned aircraft more urgent. More interestingly, the platform has inspired various uses in the industry: a non-ferrous metal smelting plant one-time cost of more than 20 million yuan, the procurement of a set of unmanned aircraft reconnaissance platform, equipped with a detection coil and other equipment, in flight can be in the lower areas of detailed geological layer slices, so as to obtain mineral distribution storage and so on.

A fire department is also specialized in large quantities of procurement of more than 10 sets of unmanned aerial vehicles converted into a fire extinguishing equipment, when the high-rise building fire, the UAV platform can be equipped with fire bombs, accurate into the indoor rapid fire.

Simple, rugged and durable, this is the first impression of aerial-view innovation in unmanned aerial products, as was the industrial design of the former Soviet Union's aesthetic style of violence. Although the appearance of ordinary, but this is a set of independent research and development of the core flight control system, representing the latest technical achievements in the country-the remote setting of a good cruise trajectory, do not need artificial remote operation can complete the mission, its stability and trajectory has reached the millimeter level, even the aerospace research institutes such as the national team, All come to buy parts of their core platform.

One of the most typical examples is, in the aviation scene innovation for the Chinese Academy of Sciences Development of "Day Hook" project, unmanned aerial vehicles under a locking system, can hook up on the boat clothesline cable thickness, complete automatic take-off and landing.

Research team: After the earthquake to get the map information

From the 2013 unmanned aerial Vehicle System Summit data, the domestic has more than 170 unmanned aircraft manufacturing enterprises, the industrial chain upstream and downstream enterprises reached more than 1000, predicting the 2015 China's UAV-related business scale will reach 10 billion yuan. In the face of such a huge market, not only let the Chinese Academy of Sciences Remote Sensing and digital Earth Institute, such as the traditional Northern faction began to go into the sea, the Xinjiang, extremely fly such a South faction company also began to enter the industry market ready to seize the opportunity.

"At present 80% are both enterprise and enterprise customers. "Zhongke Digital Information Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as remote) General manager Wang Peng to the IT Times reporter said," With all over the land SMC, non-ferrous Metals Surveying and Mapping Institute have long-term cooperation. ”

As a holding company of the Institute of Remote Sensing and Earth Digital, the Chinese Academy of Sciences has entered the industry market in the distant sea, or originated in the Wenchuan earthquake of 2008 years. At that time, after the earthquake, the Institute followed the Chinese Academy of Sciences together into the disaster area, in the harsh environment at that time, using unmanned aerial vehicles and digital camera simple way, for rescue units to get the disaster area of the primary map information data, by the national ministries of Affirmation.

At that time, this is the first time in the domestic use of unmanned aerial vehicles for remote sensing aerial photos, so a separate subsidiary of the Chinese Academy of Science and Technology, the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications research and development of micro-UAV control system applied to the industry market. With the improvement of technology, airborne equipment also from the earliest digital camera, replaced by the current Zeiss 60 million pixel aerial equipment, Leica Linear-matrix camera.

As of now, the flight mileage of China-remote UAV has exceeded 200,000 square kilometers, the flight area north to Heilongjiang province, south to Hainan Province and so on more than 20 provinces, in Guizhou province Qiannan typical mountainous area landform also can the good take-off and landing operation, has participated in the Ministry of Land and resources to 5.12 earthquake disaster Assessment, the Ministry of Public Security's to Heilongjiang province illegal drug planting surveillance , Inner Mongolia 87,000 square kilometers digital forestry construction and other national projects.

"In Dalian Oil pollution accident, the unmanned aerial vehicle platform was used to carry aerial equipment and film thickness instrument, and the pollution area and thickness were measured accurately." Wang Peng told reporters, in addition to the traditional remote sensing mapping project, in the field of environmental protection has been a large-scale deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles, such as in the EPA procurement of equipment, the UAV equipped with infrared, multi-spectral spectrometer, it can become an air quality monitor, in the high altitude to collect the current air data, Apply to Environmental Protection Department data monitoring of Industrial pollution.

500 drones are in delivery.

In the domestic unmanned aerial vehicle industry, north and south are actually representative of the typical science and technology industry chain: North Faction relies on the Beijing model of scientific research, focusing on the low cost of the B (Enterprise) end of the industry market, with very strong policy. Relying on the rapid and large-scale production and low cost of the Shenzhen model of the South, the rapid rise in the Pearl River Delta and the main focus on C (personal) end consumer products, more flexible in the civil market.

But the South's approach is more aggressive and bolder than the North's strong policy-led sector. The Peng Bin technology company, founded by former Microsoft China MVP (the most valuable expert), has just received a $ tens of millions of trillion in financing, ready to join one of the country's leading courier companies into the UAV logistics market.

Prior to this, the company has begun to work with the Australian government, with the military and police, troops and other systems docking, to carry out aerial search and rescue, patrol and other tasks. Like the Australian Coast Patrol, which uses a flying drone to patrol more than 3,000 kilometres of coastline, even the Welsh police search and rescue forces have collaborated to create a drone that adapts to all-weather use.

"Flying focus is not a simple delivery, but for the express company to provide a complete set including landing, management, scheduling and other solutions." Peng Bin said that the polar flight Logistics UAV has entered the fourth generation of commodity machine research and development, is currently in China and Australia to do airworthiness assessment. At present, the pilot of the logistics project is mainly concentrated in two provinces in Guangzhou and Zhejiang. "Every day, 500 unmanned aerial vehicles in Shenzhen and Huizhou Express work, by the end of the year will be put to 5000, to the national scope of radiation." ”

However, for the south to enter the B-end industry market, the north side stepped up to seize the industry customers, while holding a wait-and-see attitude. One of the most direct factors is that the current civil market in the multi-rotor UAV can adapt to the limited environment, to enter the B-end market needs to re-enter the research and development efforts to create a new plan, but this is not easy to do.

"The current market of the multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicles still need manual control, in high winds, heavy rain, poor visibility of the environment to achieve flying operations more difficult." But industry customers generally need to be able to operate All-weather platform, but also on the airborne load capacity, flight stability requirements, such a core flight control system scheme, design is not easy. "said Wang Wei.

Extended reading: Open no confidential holding the post

In the drone's arena, there are always a group of players who are legendary, but this is not a commendable story.

Recently, a Beijing airlines three people were "negligent dangerous way to endanger public security crime" prosecution, will face 3-10 years of imprisonment.

The cause of the incident in the industry has several versions, the closest thing is that the company was commissioned by a mining company of a party to carry out surveying and mapping operations, but did not apply to the airspace permit, on the premise of the airport in the vicinity of the aerial shoot, an airline pilot in the landing found and notify the airport, then the Beijing Military region helicopters forced its landing.

With the state in the low airspace management policy loosening, as well as related driving licences and other industry policies, the unmanned aircraft industry will usher in a set of standardized management measures.

At present, China is in Shenyang, Guangzhou, Changchun, Xi ' An, Qingdao, Hangzhou, Chongqing, such as the military to carry out 1000 meters under the real high airspace management reform pilot, and strive to push away in the country in 2015, which means that private aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles and other aircraft use the following airspace 1000 meters, Indicates that the low altitude airspace resource management of our country is changed from extensive to fine, which is good news for unmanned aerial vehicle enterprises and users who have demand for UAV, and will accelerate the application process of UAV system in industry.

The IT Times reporter learned that since April this year, the UAV driver qualification and training quality management began to be the responsibility of the Chinese aircraft Owners and Drivers Association (China AOPA), which means that the drone flight will usher in a "licensed driving".

"After the fixed-wing, multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicles, for aerial filming, mapping and other operations, operators need to obtain driving qualifications." "AOPA Executive Secretary Coyubau said that at present, China's unmanned aircraft personnel more than million people, through training-examination-Certificate management approach, will effectively regulate and manage the entire UAV industry, and will gradually be implemented nationwide."

At present, AOPA has received applications from 28 enterprises nationwide for the training of unmanned aerial vehicles, and has held the first and only batch of unmanned aerial vehicle training instructors, and initially examined and issued 8 driving school licences, of which 48 were qualified as unmanned aircraft instructors. Thereafter, qualified trainees may be assigned to a teaching mission through a certified drone pilot training facility, and the training of the drone trainers will be held by the licensing authority.

According to the regulations of China AOPA, the UAV training certificate is divided into 2 levels, and the instructor level is endorsed on the Certificate of competency. The driver flight training training not less than 44 hours, the emergency flight program operation (including engine failure, chain loss, emergency recovery, forced landing, etc.) not less than 20 hours. The most important place is that the pilot training for not less than 56 hours, teacher training requires more than 100 hours captain experience, more than two years of work experience, training time not less than 20 hours. In Beijing has landed part of the driving school, fixed-wing unmanned aircraft to obtain a driver's license needs 6~8 million, and the rotary-wing machine to obtain a driving licence needs 8~12 million.

However, not all drone drivers need to obtain a driver's license.

"Indoor operation regardless of the field of vision distance of 500 meters, height of 120 meters of micro-range regardless, sparsely populated, empty areas of the population of the dense area of the pilot unmanned aircraft. "Coyubau said that for the application of the driver's license, AOPA have more than" three no matter ", ordinary consumers if you want to send a ring at the wedding, or at a low altitude to take photos, also do not have to pass the certificate.

(editor: Mengyishan)