Since the beginning of this year, small handheld UAVs have become a hotspot in the industry because they are easy to carry and handle. A number of companies have come up with their products and hope to attract more people to become drone users and reduce the threshold for drone use.
Recently, Manta Intelligence from Shenzhen also revealed its own weapons in this field, carrying a model S6 handheld PDA. Previously, the company adopted the Chinese style of product naming, including Suzaku, Lingqin and Yu Peng. The company's general manager Wang Jun revealed in an interview that the reason why the use of the S6 naming method was mainly for the internationalization of this product. The S6 will enter the markets of North America, Europe and other Asian countries simultaneously. He also stated that S in S6 represents small and 6 represents the accumulation of Manta's technical team over the past 6 years.
Small is obvious. The Manta S6 has a collapsible design, and it has a volume that is equivalent to an iPhone 6 Plus and can be carried in a pocket like a cell phone. From the weight point of view, its 230g full body (including battery) weighs only a bag of milk.
But the most important thing is that the Manta team has created product features of the four major expandable accessories through the accumulation of the past six years. In other words, in addition to the basic capabilities of 4K shooting, Manta brought new gameplay to the handheld drone. Four large expandable modules can be added to the drone, including bullet guns, face panels, searchlights, and "omnidirectional barriers."
With the addition of the ammunition gun expansion module, the handheld drone has become a handheld fighter that can be operated by a mobile phone to launch a "cannonball."
After adding the expression board expansion module, the handheld drone becomes an expression artifact, such as the control can fly to the girl in front of the favorite, let the drone display a heart-shaped pattern, to her surprise.
After adding the searchlight expansion module, the handheld drone becomes a flashlight that can fly. Interestingly, the controlling party of Manta Smart, the listed company Snow Light Optoelectronics is the lighting industry.
After adding the “omnidirectional barrier†expansion module, the original visual recognition obstacle avoidance function of the handheld UAV has been extended to become a combination of omnidirectional infrared detection and visual recognition, greatly enhancing the safety of the handheld drone. Sex.
Wang Jun, the general manager of Manta Intelligence, told Lei Fengwang (search for the "Lei Feng Net" public number) that friends in the industry used a system based on visual recognition. This system requires relatively high light, if the obstacle surface is white, The camera cannot be identified, and the Manta S6's obstacle avoidance system can be equipped with an infrared detection expansion module, which uses infrared to detect the distance of obstacles, and then uses a fusion algorithm to greatly improve the ability of the drone to avoid obstacles. "We have integrated algorithms for optical identification and infrared physical detection and are the first in the industry," said Wang Jun.
In addition to innovations in obstacle avoidance, Manta Smart has also adopted a special design for its handheld system architecture. Although Wang Jun “temporarily kept secret†on the specific chip platform, it revealed that Manta’s UAV system adopts a modular design, which is different from the integrated solution based on the mobile phone chip platform. "Our drone system requires each module to do its own thing, such as the camera's CPU, as long as the camera and video functions are handled well, do not deal with the flight control, because the flight control operation is very complicated, requires many sensors outside the intervention , once it is necessary to handle the shooting and handling the flight control may lead to the operation speed is not enough." He added, "The camera can crash, the flight control can not crash, flight control will certainly cause crashes or accidents. This is our early stage The concept of design, each module upgrades each module to facilitate the iteration of future products. This should be the first in the industry."
The handheld drone has four major expansion modules and two industry-first technologies. It is reported that the official price of the Manta S6 in mainland China is 2199 yuan, without expansion modules. More information about the product's parameters and details can be found on the company's official website.