Uber, Amazon, Google and other tech giants are looking for ways to conquer the sky with autonomous vehicles: Uber wants people to get on the air taxi, Airbus wants to make such a vehicle, and Google and Amazon are committed to using no one The machine is used for short-distance transportation. The market potential of self-driving aircraft is unquestionable.
In order to turn these future ideas into reality, perhaps we need some new technology to avoid the occurrence of air crashes. After all, the "collision" news report is likely to scare away some of the small fans interested in drones.
This has to mention the Echodyne startup. According to foreign media reports, the company recently announced the successful testing of a drone with a new radar system that can detect and avoid obstacles during flight.
Echodyne's MESA-DAA radar system is about the size of a smartphone, and its founder and CEO, Eben Frankenberg, said in an interview: "It's great to see our technology performing well in practice testing. Test results It shows that the MESA-DAA radar system can be directly deployed on small commercial unmanned aerial vehicles to ensure the safety of drones outside the operator's line of sight."
In fact, many modern cars are already equipped with radar systems. Tesla, the leader in electric vehicles, recently announced that it will focus its future research and development on radar technology. However, the range of radar systems currently on the market is limited, and the MESA-DAA has a 120-degree horizontal (viewing angle) and an 80-degree vertical scanning field of view to detect weather conditions within a 1.8-mile range of small aircraft.
“In order to make drone delivery a reality, you need to do two things,†Fankenberg told The Verge. “First, you need to operate beyond the pilot's perspective; second, you need to provide a single carrier for multiple aircraft.†These two points are now illegal in the United States. NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) are still in the early stages of designing and testing a new generation of air traffic control systems. But Echodyne's technology may be able to make the mission of the air transport line possible. According to Lei Feng.com, the MESA-DAA radar system may be commercialized in the first quarter of 2017.
Echodyne is a big start. It is headquartered in Bellevue, Wash., and is a start-up from the US intellectual property venture, Intellectual Ventures. The latter was made by former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold 10 years ago. Founded. Echodyne develops radar systems specifically for drones, robots and driverless cars, and has also received investments from Microsoft co-founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen.
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