In the drone industry application, visual systems are often indispensable, or they can be used to avoid obstacles through sight and ensure the safety of the flight, or they can collect related impact materials through visual analysis for later analysis to provide basis for decision-making. Current agricultural plant protection drones are often equipped with little vision systems. Today, Polartech has released the XAIRCRAFT "XCope" UAV Vision System to help plant protection drones acquire the ability to sense the environment.
The 36-year-old also contacted Extreme Technology and learned that this product and technology will be mainly targeted at the B-side customer. It is expected that it will be officially sold after one month and the price will not be announced. However, the product will not be sold separately, but only as a security product. Optional, applied to the latest release of P202017 plant protection drones from Extreme Flying, SUPERX2 flight control system will also increase the corresponding function.
One of the functions of the “Tianmu†vision system released this time is to increase the reliability of obstacle avoidance. The device uses a binocular camera design to obtain two images of the measured object respectively. The three-dimensional information of the object is obtained by calculating the positional deviation between the corresponding points of the image, including the distance between the camera and the object and the distance between the objects in the line of sight. Then the perceived location data will be imported into the obstacle avoidance module for calculation, and the flight control instructions will be obtained through the cognitive algorithm, such as hovering, bypassing, or continuing to execute the route.
In October of this year, Polefly launched a geographic information service. Plant protection drone users can generate automated routes and mark obstacles based on high-precision location information directly, but such as fallen trees, fast-growing twigs, and newly added telephone poles. , or people who suddenly break into the work area, these will have an impact on the machine's autonomous obstacle avoidance and flight. The combination of the “Tianmu†vision system can not only reduce the time for pre-surveying, but also improve the safety of operations.
In addition, in many areas, summer drone plant protection is performed at night. The "Tianmu" vision system uses active near-infrared radiation technology and therefore has night vision capabilities.
However, unlike UAV power patrols, the environment for UAV agricultural plant protection is relatively complex, and dust, pesticides, etc. may enter the lens or adhere to the lens, affecting its use. For this reason, Polarcraft uses the "windscreen blocking technology" to ensure that the lens is clean.