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$120,000 Fuel Cell Tilt-Rotor UAV Designed For Smart Cities
$120,000 Fuel Cell Tilt-Rotor UAV Designed For Smart Cities
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This "best of both worlds" capability is not without precedence in the UAV
world, but the only working unmanned aircraft with tilt-rotor capabilities
prior to now have been the Korean Aerospace Research Institute's TR 100
and TR 60 experimental UAVs, bot of which are considerably larger than
the offering from Unique Aero-Tech Corporation (UATC).
The TR 60 had its first successful ship landing last month and there's little
doubt that such capabilities would vastly extend the effectiveness of any
war ship. Military budgets are characterized by their magnitude though,
and no doubt the TR 60 and its larger TR 100 sibling will be able to carry
sufficient lethal ordnance inside their payload limits.
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There have been several tilt-rotor multicopter UAVs shown around the
world, but these (small) sUAVs do not have the endurance and payload to
be much more than toys until battery density and sensor miniaturization
matures by an order of magnitude.
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The particular breakthrough in aircraft design that has enabled the UATC
UAV (pictured above) to progress from concept to commercialization in less
than a year involves the development of small propellers below the nose
and tail of the aircraft (see image gallery for more detail), which stabilize
the craft during take-off, landing and transition between horizontal and
vertical flight.
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UATC staff reported that the integrated sensor payload is being rapidly
expanded, and can, or will soon be able to be used for collecting a wide
range of smart city data, including the automated recognition of illegal
license plates on cars on Yinchuan roads and human detection (using facial
recognition) and monitoring using advanced tracking techniques.
Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of UATC's UAS is that the company was
only established in November 2016, but with the technical cooperation and
financial support of the Yinchuan Government and telecommunications
giant ZTE, progress has been swift. Both organizations are fully committed
to the Yinchuan smart city initiative and the city is being used as a testbed
and blueprint for another 100 smart cities around China.
UATC is one of the first commercial spin-offs from the Yinchuan Smart City
initiative, in which the Northern Chinese city is being used as a model for
China's 100+ smart cities. UATC designed the VTOL tilt-rotor to meet
Yinchuan's traffic surveillance and air quality monitoring needs, and
further capabilities are under development that will enable the
RMB800,000 (US$120,000) aircraft to provide even more useful data.
New sensor capabilities are being developed in parallel for the UAV for
cities with particular needs, and applications on the development roadmap
are as diverse as gas detection, urban emergency monitoring and
management, and environmental protection. One of the apparent intended
uses for the UAV is facilitating a biodiversity survey.
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