Flyability - Confined Spaces inspection - InterDrone 2018

[@Canyon76]

I'm curious what control and video frequency they use to avoid interference. All the situations they market it for are areas with metal and other minerals and material that definitely mess with RF signals! In a cave with side tunnels I doubt the signal would be able to penetrate the cave!

[@bophoto]

Good question, surprisingly it seems they are using a 2.4 / 8 ghz scheme in a pretty much stock licensed DJI control link, seems they have had no problems with this. thinking the 10 minute flight time, means they only get so far into the place and the system that normally is good for 7km probably still manages, they are using big antennas on the handset, so definitely looking for faint signals at times I would guess.

[@Canyon76]

@@bophoto Ahh! Very interesting. Good concept for sure but despite what they were saying about most projects being complete in 10 minutes I think you need at least 20 minutes to really explore a mining shaft or even all the books and crannies of an area of a building. Once they get the flight time up I think these things will sell like hot cakes.

[@onclefly8450]

Hi Bo Lorentzen, great a french team my country. 😉

[@traveltrailerlife]

Nice..........BUT $$$$$$$$ wow

[@jungha496]

It's not easy to evaluate the performance of this product since it's so specialized. However, from the other youtube videos, I do find that this product, which is more than 2 years old, lacks the positioning capability due to lack of visual and sonar sensors, which can be disappointment in industrial inspection.

[@bophoto]

I do believe the optical sensors for positioning is somewhat meaningless the way this is being used, and its intended to bounce off objects rather than avoid them. they literally will "roll" down along a wall, where a quad with obstacle avoidance, we would be trying to keep it from touching even if it had prop-protectors.

[@jungha496]

I do agree that it's intended to bounce around the obstacles, but on other other hand, how are you going to get a fine inspection if the drone cannot stay in position? From this demonstration video kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y4CqnmOAj7ikbaM , even without any obstacle, the drone is "bouncing" around itself. Considering its cost, I would expect it to perform better.

[@BenHayat]

P1 was 8 minutes.. :-) But, 10 minutes is not enough. They got to get better batteries for $25K.

[@gastonfg]

Nice try, very impressive. Now challenge is ON for a 3 k€ similar one...

[@bophoto]

Ive got friends who fly a small DJI in a plastic cage they made themselves, work perfectly cost less than 1k

[@gastonfg]

@@bophoto Avé 3D printing 😏👍

[@sirhilsam]

Brilliant concept inspection needs more time because you'll 'looking' for the problem. Secondly, a fishing line to 'try' to recover a $25K drone?...hmmm...

[@bophoto]

a thin fishing line even. :-) I do think one can learn to work with the 10minute time-frame, clearly this is why they provide a lot of batteries (and they look pretty stock mini-quad race packs) But it would be good not to manage to crash or get stuck ones 25k drone in the back of a nuclear plant... thats probably way more "gone" than landing in the angry neighbors flowerbed.