Chapter 2 of in depth analysis of the UAV industry
2023-10-22 18:00According to technical characteristics, we can divide drones into the following categories:
1. VTOL Fixed Wing Fixed Wing Drones: It is the mainstream platform for military and most civilian-grade drones. Its technical characteristics are strong endurance, large flight radius, fast cruising speed, and strong load capacity, but it has high take-off and landing requirements and cannot be fixed at a fixed point. Hover.
2. Industry Application Drones: It is the mainstream platform for consumer drones. Its technical characteristics are low take-off and landing requirements, hovering ability, good maneuverability, and low cost, but it has short endurance time and weak load capacity.
3. Unmanned helicopter: It is a dual-use flying platform for both military and civilian use. It is suitable for applications that require vertical take-off and landing and free hovering. Its endurance, load capacity, cruising speed and other indicators are higher than those of multi-axis UAVs but weaker than fixed ones. Wing drone.
4. Special configuration UAVs: UAVs with special configurations such as composite wings, tilt rotors, flapping wings, etc., have the characteristics of both fixed wings and rotors, and their performance indicators are generally between rotary wing and fixed wing UAVs. between the two.