Solar drone use

Some people regard it as a flying toy. Some people regard it as a self-timer artifact. Some people regard it as an auxiliary tool to assist production and life. This is a drone. In recent years, with the rapid development of technologies such as flight control, navigation, and communication, drones have not only formed their own industries, but also have an extremely strong development speed. With the continuous growth of the market scale, the continuous development of new market segments, and the increasing application scenarios, the types of drones are becoming more and more detailed, including the solar drones of today's fires.
Solar drones are getting hotter

The solar drone, as its name suggests, is a drone that uses solar energy as its power source for flight and operation. It has the characteristics of long flight time, long-lasting air, ultra-high flight and wide operation, and its value is comparable to that of “quasi-satellite”. In recent years, due to natural disaster warning, high-altitude patrol supervision, emergency rescue and disaster relief, anti-terrorism stability, mobile communications and other purposes, countries are accelerating research and development and actively deploying solar drones in order to seize the new high ground of the future drone industry.

Solar drone

Among them, the United States and the United Kingdom are the two pioneers and leaders in the development of solar drones. The former developed the solar drones such as "Phasius" and "Altas" by Aurora Flight Science and General Atom, and then companies such as Facebook and Google once again led a new batch of solar energy. The development of man-machines; the latter also aimed to verify the key technologies of solar-powered flight, and early developed the "Breeze" and "West Wind" series of solar drones, and have been effectively applied in the defense sector.

Following the United States and Britain, in recent years, China's development in solar drones has also progressed rapidly and with great results.

In 2016, Xigong University's "Phantom of the Shadows Solar WiFi UAV" was born, highlighting China's certain strength in the development of solar WiFi drones; in 2017, based on the adjacent space solar drones to build the "flying clouds" of the air LAN The opening of the project marks that China has become the third country in the world to master the solar space drone technology in the adjacent space. At the same time, in recent days, China's self-developed medium and large-scale solar-powered unmanned aircraft "Mozi II" successfully completed its first flight. It also indicates that the gap between China and the United States and the United States is getting smaller and smaller.
Unique value opens the door to the application

From the above, we can see that the major countries in the world are focusing on the development of solar drones, on the one hand, accelerating the technological research and development of solar drones, and actively developing the industrial development of solar drones. Certain results. So, there are so many types of drones, why are you eager to develop solar drones?

This is mainly due to the unique properties and application value of the solar drone! The solar drone can be used for long-term, stable and long-term high-altitude flight with the help of the sun, which is unmatched by other drones. With this feature, solar drones can open up various applications in the military and civilian fields, and become an excellent tool to promote industry transformation, promote structural adjustment, and enhance national strength.

For example, solar drones can act as “air base stations” to provide mobile communications for urban or remote mountain areas and to provide stable temporary communications after a disaster. As long as the WIFI is installed on the solar drone, it is a mobile router that can updat the traditional communication dependence on ordinary base stations and satellites, thereby reducing and solving the communication threshold and restrictions, making communication more simple, flexible and convenient. And stable.

For example, solar drones can also act as "military weapons" and play an important role in military communications, military transportation, and wartime rescue. Compared to ordinary drones, solar drones have larger loads, higher flying speeds, longer battery life, greater stability and resistance. These attributes make them an ideal military tool before and during war. All aspects of time and after the war can contribute unique value.

In addition, the solar drone can also serve as a "rescue rescue", "patrol guard", "power generation expert" and so on. As a powerful drone for military and civilians, it has a far-reaching application space and good commercial value. It can be developed into a promising military application or commercial service project in the future, adding fuel to China's economic, military and social development. Afterburner.
China's development is currently mixed

Of course, the realization of a bright future is inseparable from the actual efforts. As far as the development of solar power drones in China is concerned, it is not too good, nor can it be considered bad. It can only be said that there are mixed feelings, challenges and opportunities.

At present, although China has issued a number of policies such as the Smart Photovoltaic Industry Development Action Plan (2018-2020), it explicitly encourages the development of solar drones; relevant enterprises and research institutes are also actively cooperating to jointly promote solar energy. Machine technology research and development. However, due to the late start, lack of core technology and insufficient enterprise strength, China's development still faces many problems.

These problems mainly include: technical requirements are too high, insufficient in terms of battery life, control, and intelligence; new materials and new technologies required in the production and optimization process are difficult to master; development is in the research and development stage, mass production cannot be achieved, resulting in corporate financial pressure Too large; the test risk is too large, and it is easy to lose heavy once the damage or crash occurs in the test under high cost.