Talking about the role of drones in "smart construction"

As an important part of modern engineering, mechanical automation has penetrated into every aspect of the construction process. Through close integration with microelectronics, computer technology and information processing technology, mechanical automation has made new breakthroughs in many fields, such as today's introduction to drones.

Intelligent drone

First of all, it is necessary to tell everyone what the drone is. As the name suggests, a drone is an unmanned aircraft. It is a non-manned aircraft that uses remote communication technology to remotely operate or use its own program control device for automatic maneuvering. As the forefront of modern mechanical automation research and application, drones are no longer just exclusive equipment in certain fields, not only for film shooting, video aerial photography, mapping, high-altitude spray pesticides, news reports, disaster relief, etc. It can even be used for ordinary people to take selfies and create romantic surprises.

UAV measurement

In March of this year, the world-famous drone company "Dajiang" announced its largest commercial drone order: the sale of 1,000 U.S. drones equipped with the US startup Skycatch machine vision software to Japanese architecture Giant Komatsu. These drones are all the same model: Skycatch Explore1, a semi-automatic quadcopter based on the DJI Matrice 100 corporate drone.

UAV generates 3D map

There will be many people who question whether this drone, like a child's toy, will bring about changes in construction. Then let's see what the "little guy" has!

Unmanned construction machinery

First of all, the drone can generate maps accurate to 5 cm using the stereo camera and 3D map scanning technology. The customer accurately understands the area, shape and volume of the soil through maps and 3D data before construction to calculate the amount of cut and the amount of soil for actual construction. Second, when starting construction, drones can help with tasks such as monitoring inventory (for example, how much cement or sand is left). At the same time, data can be transmitted to smart devices (such as Komatsu D61i-23, D51i-22, D37i-23 and D39i-23 bulldozers and PC210LCi-10 excavators). Intelligent machine control devices automatically control its construction and improve experience. Insufficient speed and accuracy of the operator at work.

One is the precision-manufactured electronic equipment, and the other is the heavy-duty equipment of reinforced iron and bone. These two products that are incompatible with each other have produced amazing results. At present, there are more and more applications of drones in the construction machinery industry. It is also believed that with the increasingly efficient cooperation between the two, more changes will be brought to the intelligent construction.