Recently, drone formations have been shown in many places across the country. The scale of the show is also very large, often hundreds, even thousands of shows. And through the interview learned, this has the technology popularization reason, also has the price to delet sharply the reason.
In 2017, several companies entered the UAV formation performance market. However, it is understood that the performance price at that time is quite high, the service cost of each sortie can reach 10,000 yuan, that is, a UAV formation performance of several hundred scale often means a budget of several million yuan. It's not only expensive, but also queuing, and the service provider's schedule is very full. If you don't make an appointment in advance, you may not have the money to buy the service.
But now the situation has changed dramatically. More companies in China offer UAV formation performance services, and the price of the service has been greatly reduced. Industry insiders revealed that the price of each sortie can now be reduced to 1000 yuan or less. A manufacturer said that in the case of such low prices, the formation performance has become a "heavy asset mode." The hundreds or thousands of drones that service providers have to stockpile are an expensive asset relative to revenue. It also makes it riskier to operate because margins are lower and you lose money if you delet too many drones.
However, it is understood that the current domestic UAV formation technology has been relatively mature, "bomb" rate is not high. Two industry insiders said that the normal loss rate of domestic formation performance is below 3 percent. So calculate come, through "small profits but quick turnover" also have money to earn.
However, it should be noted that UAV formation performance is not simple and has a high technical threshold. According to insiders, UAV formation needs to solve many problems such as timing, navigation, anti-jamming and path coordination. Coordinated movement of multiple UAV requires precise positioning and precise synchronization of time. The cool formation also needs to plan reasonable routes and deal with interference between each other. Achieving this is easier said than done, and requires a lot of investment and failure.
While overseas UAV formation performances seem to be less popular, many of the performances have not attracted much attention in China, but foreign netizens are in praise of "science fiction!" . A few years ago, a foreign technology giant also entered the formation performance market, and once gave many brilliant performances, but it was almost silent in the past two years. According to an official from a Chinese manufacturer, the tech giant's "explosion rate" is as high as 10 percent per performance, making it impossible to operate commercially because of the high cost of losses. A university teacher who studies formation also said that the technology level of the formation of the tech giant is very poor compared with that of China, there is no RTK (carrier phase difference, which can achieve centimeter-level positioning); The software is also poor, with the cages on the fuselage pushing each other apart to solve collisions.
The university teacher also mentioned one problem: Chinese-made drones are cheap and good. He said the motors, electrical controls, batteries and flight control of the UAVs used in the domestic formation performance are all made in China, cheap and of stable quality. And that foreign tech giant is almost a "handmade drone," and the cost is so high that even big companies can't afford to iterate on a second batch of drones.
This situation is very similar to the consumer UAV industry. An entrepreneur interviewed by Huanqiu.com UAV channel previously also said that because of the industrial chain and other reasons, the only way to make the UAV stable and cheap is to make it in China. Also because the design needs the support of the manufacturing industry to constantly improve and polish, the rapid iteration can only be developed in China. A drone like DJI's, which costs about 6,000 yuan, would cost tens of thousands of dollars to manufacture in the United States, he said.
So what will happen to the formation performance industry as technology becomes less of a problem and the price of service drops dramatically? One vendor said that while they are still investing and iterating on the fleet's technology, he is not so keen to show off his services as to sell the technology solutions. He believes that the leading role of UAV formation performance will become a professional service provider. In the future, UAV formation performance will be like dancing and other performances. Technology is one thing, but more important is creativity, planning, choreography, organization and so on.
China's High-tech Fleet of UAV Has Become a Reality
2021-06-15
introduce：Recently, drone formations have been shown in many places across the country. The scale of the show is also very large, often hundreds, even thousands of shows. And through the interview learned, this has the technology popularization reason, also has the
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