DRONES REVOLUTION IN TRACKING
Drone have u heard of it??What is it?????
A drone in a technological perspective is a light flying robot. It is more formally acknowledged as Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). Fundamentally, drones can be flown autonomously or be remotely controlled through software-commanded flight plans embedded in their systems to work in combination with GPS.
THE FUTURE EFFECT OF DRONE TECHNOLOGY ON THE
MODERN ERA OF MANKIND
The fast-growing global drone industry has not sat back waiting for government policy to be hammered out before pouring investment and effort into opening up this all-new hardware and computing market.
A growing ecosystem of drone software and hardware vendors is already catering to a long list of clients in agriculture, land management, energy, and construction. Many of the vendors are smallish private companies and startups — although large defense-focused companies and industrial conglomerates are beginning to invest in drone technology, too.
In a report from BI Intelligence, we take a deep dive into the various levels of the growing global industry for commercial drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). This 32-page report provides forecasts for the business opportunity in commercial drone technology, looks at advances and persistent barriers, highlights the top business-to-business markets in terms of applications and end users, and provides an exclusive list of dozens of notable companies already active in the space. Finally, it digs into the current state of US regulation of commercial drones, recently upended by the issuing of the Federal Aviation Administration's draft rules for commercial drone flights. Few people know that many companies are already authorized to fly small drones commercially under a US government "exemption" program.
GPS TRACKING IN DRONES
With the goal of achieving autonomous flight of drones, Jose Martinez Carranza from the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (INAOE) in Mexico, developed a vision and learning system to control and navigate them.
Martinez structured an innovative method to estimate the position and orientation of the vehicle, allowing it to recognise its environment, hence to replace the Global Positioning System (GPS) for low-cost sensors such as accelerometers, gyroscopes and camcorders.
The main idea was to avoid the use of GPS and use video cameras on board the vehicle for visual information and applying an algorithm to locate and orient the drone during its flight to use such information, researchers said.
To do this, a function that allows to draw a specific route on a map using aerial view was also adapted. Similar to Google Maps, it indicates autonomous navigation to a particular destination.
Researchers wanted to investigate different methods to perform autonomous flight of a drone on the outside environment where several challenges as wind currents occur and in areas where there is no GPS signal and have limited computational processing capabilities.
"At the stage of repeating, the pilot just makes the drone take off, but once in the air, autonomous flight algorithms kick into action and, by processing visual information captured by the camera, the vehicle recognises where in the environment it is positioned," said Martinez.
Once it has recognised its location, visual information estimates vehicle position, which is sent to the control algorithms, responsible for moving the drone, so that it navigates to each of the points made in the route recorded during the stage teaching.
Software for ground control station was also developed, where the visual transmission from the drone is received in real time.
This allows the inspection chamber in-charge to take photos or videos needed to detect fractures or flaws in structures.
Drones With GPS Autopilot And Camera
Phantom 4 – GPS , 6 Autopilot Modes And 4k Camera
The Phantom 4 has just been released by DJI. While it is not as affordable as some of the other drones in this article, it’s price is within reach for most. You are also getting the latest and greatest drone technology.
For perfect 3d imagery, your drones gps, autopilot system and camera needs to work seamlessly. You get that with the Phantom 4.
The Phantom 4 draws on up to 24 satellites to give you more accuracy and a faster connection to satellites. Using a combination of GPS and GLONASS, this quadcopter is completely aware of its starting point, location and relation to you during flight. These intelligent flight system means it knows its last position, provides return to home, shows you where it is on a map and much more.
Along with it GPS autopilot system, you have the following technologies;
Automated obstacle avoidance
Waypoints
Follow me
TapFly
ActiveTrack
Points Of Interest
Phantom 4 Camera
This camera allows you to shoot sharp, clean video in up to 4k at 30fps and full HD 1080p at 120 fps for slow motion. It has a newly designed lens that dramatically increases sharpness and focus.
An aspherical lens with a 94° field of view (FOV) reduces distortion by 36% and chromatic aberration by 56% when compare to the older Phantom 2. A hyperfocal length of one meter allows you to get closer to objects while keeping them in pin-sharp focus. Photographers can shoot images in 12 megapixel Adobe DNG RAW.
THE MAIN IDEAS TO BE TAKEN
The global commercial drone market will take shape around applications in a handful of industries: agriculture, energy, utilities, mining, construction, real estate, news media, and film production.
Most growth in the drone industry is on the commercial/civilian side, as the shift away from the military market gains momentum. The market for commercial/civilian drones will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 19% between 2015 and 2020, compared with 5% growth on the military side.
1.E-commerce and package delivery will not be an early focus of the drone industry.
2.Legacy drone manufacturers focused mostly on military clients do not have a natural advantage in the fast-evolving civilian drone market.
3.Proposed US regulation would effectively end the ban on commercial drone flights and would allow low-altitude flights of small drones within view of a ground-based pilot. The rules are unlikely to be finalized before early 2017. Some believe it will happen earlier. But we believe it most likely that widespread but heavily restricted commercial UAV flights will become routine sometime that year.
4.Technology barriers are at once a roadblock and a huge business opportunity.
5.Many of the notable early commercial UAV manufacturers are emerging outside of the US market: 6.These include Switzerland-based senseFly (owned by France-based Parrot), Canadian firm Aeryon, publicly traded Swedish firm CybAero, Shenzhen, China-based DJI, and Korea-based Gryphon.
7.The commercial-drone industry is still young but has begun to see some consolidation and major investments from large industrial conglomerates, chip companies, and defense contractors.