This test had been prepared for several days, but the whole process only lasted six or seven minutes.
There is no way, limited by battery and battery life, the drone can only stay in the air for six or seven minutes.
Improving speed at the expense of battery life is also a performance balancing method in the drone field. If you want absolute speed, you must increase the power of the motor and reduce the weight of the drone itself.
But in this case, it is necessary to reduce the weight of the battery, but the high-power motor consumes a lot of power, not to mention a bunch of other sensors and related equipment.
While greatly reducing the weight of the battery, the battery life that can be maintained for six to seven minutes is actually very good.
In fact, for such a small drone and such a small-scale operation, six or seven minutes is enough time.
It's just that in complex environments, the performance of drones is limited by terrain and cannot be used.
Just like this time, the vegetation in the forest is relatively dense, and it is very inconvenient for the drone to travel through it. It is also difficult to search for related hidden targets.
In the end, the 'moles' won the test.
There were a total of fifteen people, but the drone only found thirteen of them, and two of them were still not found within the flight time.
Of course, the hiding place of these two people is very tricky.
The first person was hiding in the crown of a huge tree. The branches were relatively dense, so the drone did not go deep into the branches to conduct reconnaissance. It just scanned around and left.
Because the distance is relatively far, after the sun rises, the temperature on the tree trunks is higher than on the ground, which greatly masks the infrared signs of the human body.
In addition, the breeze swept through the dense leaves and caused great information interference in the radar search on the drone, allowing him to deceive the drone.
The second person was even more ruthless. He immersed his whole body in the cold stream on the hillside, only exposing his face to breathe. After hearing the sound of the drone, he quickly hid in the water to hold his breath.
The cold stream water blocked the man's infrared signs, and the water itself could block reflected radar waves, so he evaded radar search.
Being able to find out the weaknesses of their drone and exploit them in such a short period of time shows the solid technical and tactical skills of these two veterans.
This is indeed a flaw or shortcoming of their drone, and it exists objectively. Before there is new detection technology, such flaws will always exist.
In fact, it is possible to find these two people using current detection technology, but the power of the detection equipment carried by the drone is too low, and the data processing capacity is also very limited, so these two people slipped through the net. .
Of course, this does not mean that their drone and 'battlefield sweeper' have failed. There were a total of fifteen people, and thirteen of them could be found within six or seven minutes. This efficiency was enough to illustrate the advanced nature of this weapon and equipment.
This test will last for several days, and the R&D technical team must have enough test data to facilitate their subsequent research and related optimization improvements.
It's just that the time given to them will not be too long, because the military-civilian integration achievement exhibition in Beijing is about to open. The company's advance personnel have already set off to prepare for related exhibition arrangements.
During the development process of this drone or battlefield cleaner, Wu Hao has been thinking about how much room for improvement this system and drones have, and what fields they can be used in besides the battlefield.
This is a technical consideration. Because technology is the result of knowledge from multiple fields, it can be applied to multiple fields. For example, nuclear energy can be used as a weapon, and it can also be used in the fields of power and power generation to serve mankind.
There are also business needs. After all, the research and development of a technology is too time-consuming and labor-intensive. As a company, they must tap the maximum value of this technology.
So similarly, what else does this 'battlefield sweeper' drone do besides the battlefield? This is not only a question that Wu Hao and other technical staff are thinking about, but also a headache for business operators.
At present, there are two main aspects that everyone thinks of most and have the most consensus on.
The first one is the logistics delivery drone system they are currently developing with the Albatross Logistics Technology Company established in a. The 'Battlefield Sweeper' drone has strong obstacle avoidance and personnel detection and recognition functions. This is absolutely an indispensable function for logistics delivery drones flying in areas with complex terrain and people like cities.
If this technology can be applied to logistics delivery drones, it will not only speed up the research and development process of this drone and the project, but also improve the overall performance of this drone, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.
The second field of driverless driving is also the hottest research field at present. Although major companies are conducting research in this field, they have also come up with their own autonomous driving technology. However, there are only a handful of autonomous driving technologies that are truly outstanding, accepted by the public, and put into practical use.
Most driverless technologies are still in the theoretical and experimental stages.
The difficulty of this technology is actually the detection of the surrounding environment and the accurate processing of real-time information by driverless cars while driving at high speeds.
In this regard, their hardware field is definitely not as good as those technology giants who are researching this technology. However, software processing capabilities, especially in environmental information processing capabilities and AI technology, are definitely leading. There is no doubt about this.
Although they are unlikely to enter the automotive field with their current capabilities and development direction, finding a manufacturer for technical cooperation is also a good choice.
In Wu Hao's vision, this battlefield sweeper system and drone actually have many applications.
For example, unmanned attack vehicles developed based on the 'Battlefield Sweeper' system, or unmanned attack speedboats, or even unmanned attack submersibles, etc., can play an unexpected and huge role in specific fields.
Even in the civilian field, security patrol drones and unmanned patrol vehicles developed based on the "Battlefield Sweeper" system will also play an important role in the field of security and defense.
For example, this drone can be completely improved into a patrol and reconnaissance drone by removing the attack module.
This patrol and reconnaissance drone is then used to form a patrol reconnaissance team or patrol group to conduct patrol and reconnaissance of the target area.
And it can also automatically perform functions such as scheduling, grouping, takeoff and landing charging, etc. based on its own battery life, without the need for human intervention.
After a suspicious target is discovered, not only can it be monitored and tracked in real time, but it can also be alerted to the control center and security personnel in a timely manner. You can even use the lens sensor on the drone to identify people, and use the speakers and lights on the drone to warn and drive away intruders, etc.
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