Industrial Transformation Of Unmanned Equipment: Flying Bus Station Upwind, Urban UAV Traffic Competition

At noon on September 29, the rainbow-4 UAV flew into the air and performed a flight performance. Rainbow series UAV is a kind of UAV developed by China Aerospace Science and technology group. Before its appearance, the pterosaur-2 UAV developed by China aviation industry group completed its flight performance on September 28, demonstrating the UAV system's full autonomous take-off and landing, climb cruise flight, air-ground coordination and other capabilities.

The 21st century economic reporter noted that this is the first time in the 25 years since the China International Aeronautics and Astronautics exposition has arranged a UAV flight performance and display. Behind the change is the emergence of unmanned equipment in recent years. Many of the latest unmanned equipment also appeared in this Zhuhai Air Show. The main Committee of the air show even specially held several unmanned equipment forums, from UAVs to unmanned vehicles, unmanned boats and unmanned systems.

Pterosaur II UAV. Surging image

Civil and military UAV aerial Exhibition

Although the scale of the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenian in the Naka region last year is not large, it has aroused great concern due to the participation of UAVs in the confrontation. At the end of February this year, the largest and most influential comprehensive defense exhibition in West Asia and North Africa, Abu Dhabi International Defense Exhibition, has a number of UAV products from multinational exhibitors occupying the core position of the exhibition stand.

Therefore, at this year's Zhuhai Air Show, the appearance of UAVs is also eye-catching. Many exhibitors have brought UAVs with different performance forms, and the UAV display of AVIC group is undoubtedly the most concerned.

It is reported that AVIC has 27 UAV exhibits at this exhibition, covering all kinds of UAVs, including large, medium and small UAVs, with fixed wing / rotor / composite layout, and various power configurations including turboprop / turbofan / piston. This is the first time that the aviation industry has exhibited such a rich and complete product spectrum.

The first public display of attack-11 UAV, uav-7 and high-altitude high-speed UAV have attracted the attention of professional audience. Attack-11 is an unmanned combat aircraft with high stealth, strong penetration and precision strike capability, while unmanned reconnaissance-7 is a UAV that can fly freely across civil aviation routes and is used for strategic and Tactical Reconnaissance by providing image intelligence. Another UAV, high altitude high-speed UAV, is a new type of near space equipment integrated with aerospace technology. It made its debut in the National Day parade on the 70th anniversary of the founding of new China, which caused a sensation at that time.

China Aerospace Science and Technology Group also brought a number of UAVs to the exhibition, including rainbow-4, rainbow-6 and rainbow-10. "Rainbow-6 is a large-scale, high-altitude, high-speed, long-term UAV." Shi Hongwei, an engineer of caihong-6 UAV in the 11th Academy of aerospace, introduced that its takeoff weight is 7.8 tons, the lift limit is 12000 meters, and the maximum speed can reach 800 kilometers per hour. Rainbow-10 unmanned tilt rotor aircraft is also a highlight of this exhibition.

In addition to the military UAV exhibits, a large number of civil UAV exhibits also attracted the attention of the audience. For example, TP500 unmanned transport aircraft developed and manufactured by Yitong UAV System Co., Ltd. has attracted the attention of many logistics companies. This UAV is positioned for regional logistics transportation, with a full load of up to 0.5 tons. After full load of goods, it can sail 500 kilometers and cruise at 240 kilometers per hour.

The flying car caused a commotion

Flying cars are also included in the category of unmanned aerial vehicles. 21st century economic reporter noted that many flying car brands appeared in the air show for the first time.

Shanghai Fengfei Aviation Technology Co., Ltd., which has just obtained $100 million in financing, made an appearance at the Zhuhai Air Show with its autopilot evtol manned aircraft-v1500m.

According to the head of the company, the evtol manned aircraft v1500m is a flying car independently developed by the company, with a maximum takeoff weight of 1500 kg and a passenger flight range of 250 km. It is equipped with pure electric power system and adopts the configuration of composite wing. It is provided with lift by eight electric lift systems, and takes off vertically like a multi rotor aircraft; After flying to a certain altitude, forward conversion is carried out, and cruise power is provided by two tail propulsion systems, such as fast cruise of fixed wing aircraft. However, at present, this flying car only provides cargo flight, not manned flight, and it will enter the manned flight stage after accumulating certain flight parameters.

Another flying car brand that appeared in Zhuhai Air Show is Xiaopeng Huitian. The appearance of the flying car is cool, and the door opens like a seagull spreading its wings. It has a full sense of technology. Tang Xiaoxu, brand manager of Xiaopeng Huitian, said that the fifth generation Voyager x2 on display at present has completed the verification flight. The designed flight altitude is within 1000m, the maximum flight speed is 130km / h, the maximum takeoff weight is 760kg, the endurance time is about half an hour, and the flight distance is 50km.

The most special feature of this aircraft car is the autopilot system, which can independently plan the flight path. However, Tang Xiaoxu said that the flying car will not be sold to the public temporarily. "The next generation of products is really the coupling of automobile and aircraft, with car wheels, and 90% of the time it can drive on the road like a car.".

At present, it should be the flying cars exhibited by Dover aviation industry group to achieve the same driving function as cars. This flying car not only has a helicopter like propeller, but also has four small wheels, the shape is quite lovely. Yang Zeming, President of Dover Tianma flying automobile group, told reporters that the flying height of this E-type flying car can reach 1800 meters, and the flight speed can reach 160 km / h. The conversion time of air power and ground power only takes 3 seconds, fuel can be used, and the flight distance is 450 km. Because the altitude is only 1.9 meters, it can be parked in any parking space and private garage.

Yang also revealed that the current price of the flying car is $400000, which was highly praised and ordered when he participated in CES technology exhibition last year. He thinks that the flying car has a good market prospect. Although it is not allowed to go on the road in China, the company is ready to build a factory in Wenzhou for mass production and seize the market opportunity.

Intelligent air traffic needs early planning

The fury caused by the flying car in the air show is actually the continuation of the huge wave of this industry in the capital market. Since August this year, three UAV air transport companies, Joby, Lilium and Archer, have been successfully listed in the US capital market. Their emergence has caused the market to pursue, also lets the analyst forecast 20 years later the evtol market scale will reach 1 trillion US dollars.

This has encouraged a number of domestic evtol start-ups. In September this year, Shanghai time technology announced that it had completed two consecutive rounds of financing within one month, totaling 10 million US dollars. Volant and Fengfei technology also released financing news. Geely's Wofei Changkong and Germany's volocopter announced the establishment of a joint venture company, Wolong kongtai, in Chengdu, and EH. Us also reached strategic cooperation with Eastern general aviation.

"UAV will usher in a new high tide of development." Liu Daxiang, academician of the Chinese Academy of engineering, believes that benefiting from the national demand for emergency rescue system equipment construction and the release of the "development outline of transportation power", general aviation ushered in a new historical development opportunity, and UAV is an important equipment for navigation and emergency rescue. Liu Daxiang believes that UAVs will be the main force of future air combat and become air combat robots; The UAV will also be the new force of rapid logistics, achieving the last kilometer of point-to-point, remote mountainous areas and sparsely populated areas. As for civil consumer UAVs, they will be developed on demand and customized on demand.

Noting the restlessness of the evtol market, Liu Daxiang said that it is particularly important to standardize the development of UAVs at a time when the demand for UAVs is greatly increasing, "airworthiness certification must be done.".

In addition to airworthiness certification, UAVs, including flying cars, need a strong urban intelligent air traffic system to cooperate with them. This is exactly the problem that governments all over the world are thinking about. The speed of industrial development is much faster than the government's original means of traffic management.

Chen Zhijie, academician of the Chinese Academy of engineering, pointed out that the emergence of flying vehicles requires the management of the entire air flight target to be transformed into digital and refined control, which will change the current airspace resource allocation and airspace operation control. Chen Zhijie believes that this is a new round of science and technology and industrial revolution. The field of information technology represented by digitization, informatization and intellectualization continues to extend. The normalization of cross domain integration of technology will bring more possibilities for the development of low altitude airspace management, which will also provide unlimited opportunities and development for future intelligent air traffic represented by UAVs.

Chen Zhijie said that the urban UAV traffic mode and China's low altitude intelligent network complement each other. At present, more than 200 enterprises around the world are involved in the urban UAV traffic competition, of which the majority are evtol projects. With the improvement of its performance, urban unmanned flight will partially replace the existing manned flight applications. Therefore, he reminded that in the construction and management of cities, we should consider the concept of manned / unmanned integrated flight, and accelerate the construction of relevant urban infrastructure.