The Competition of UAV Flight Control Market Is White Hot. What Is the Meaning of the New Layout of

Dajiang recently made a large-scale price adjustment for its own flight control products. A2 flight control decreased to 3499, naza-m V2 decreased to 1099, and the lowest price of naza-m Lite (excluding GPS) was as low as 299, with a maximum range of 56%. The most direct reason for the sharp price reduction of Dajiang flight control series products comes from the intense competition in the flight control market. Independent flight control products, whether consumer or professional, are less and less used in aerial photography UAVs. Obviously, competing for this market is not the real purpose of Dajiang. What is the purpose of Dajiang's price reduction?

The integration trend of aerial photography UAV has been determined

In the consumer UAV, the flight control, as the core component, usually adopts hardware integration design. For example, Dajiang spirit 4, the flight control is highly integrated on the flight control board in the fuselage. The advantages of flight control integration are obvious. It not only has compact design layout and higher integration, but also avoids the reliability problems caused by the electrical lead connection of devices. Therefore, the development trend of future consumer UAV is miniaturization of appearance and internal integration.

At present, the aerial photographing UAV, which accounts for the largest proportion of the UAV market, has adopted integrated design. Previously, aerial photographing needs to purchase flight control, rack, PTZ, picture transmission, remote control, special display screen and other equipment separately for assembly and use, which is not only cumbersome, but also the complex configuration and assembly process keeps most people out of the door.

The most important advantage of integrated design is interactive experience. The all-in-one aircraft is much more friendly than the rear mounted UAV. It can not only fly in real time through the app and adjust the parameters of the camera, but also directly prompt the aircraft in case of abnormalities. The captured pictures can also be played back at any time or even downloaded to the mobile phone for editing.

This is impossible for rear mounted UAVs, so now both individual users and aerial photography studios tend to buy all-in-one aircraft as aerial photography tools.

Industry application exploration, mainstream modular design

In industry application and scientific research, it is the mainstream method to use flight platform and then carry flight control.

Nowadays, flight control on the market can be divided into open source flight control and commercial flight control. Common open source flight controls include APM, pixhawk, cc3d, etc. the open source flight control code is open. Therefore, many manufacturers adopt the mode of hardware self-made and code replication to produce flight control, and there will be many products from different manufacturers with similar settings and performance.

Commercial flight control is mainly occupied by old qualified enterprises such as Dajiang and zero. Although the price of commercial flight control is relatively high, the parameter setting and product matching are much more convenient. Unlike open source flight control, the wiring is more complex, and some need to configure interfaces and set hardware parameters by themselves. Therefore, even if the price is higher, many manufacturers in the UAV industry choose commercial flight control.

Zero, as an old UAV enterprise started from flight control, was once known as North zero and South Xinjiang. In May this year, zero announced the suspension of retail sales of "Gemini" and "x4v2" mainstream flight controls. This undoubtedly makes Dajiang's flight control occupy a greater market share.

Whether using open source flight control or commercial flight control, for UAV industry applications, manufacturers adopt flight control and self-designed rack assembly for debugging, take functional modules with different needs such as shooting, mapping and throwing, and then conduct appearance design to package their own UAV products. Like the mobile phone industry, most enterprises produce mobile phones by purchasing hardware and solutions from upstream enterprises for assembly rather than research and development from scratch.

Therefore, after Dajiang's flight control price reduction, the cost of purchasing flight control in the sales of rear mounted UAVs can be greatly reduced. The reliability and technical advantages of commercial flight control will allow some UAV manufacturers using open source flight control to replace flight control types, which will reduce the technical threshold of UAVs in the industry to a certain extent.

Build a reliable flight platform with flight control as the core

Flight control is the core of UAV flight and operation. Different industry applications and modes are based on flight platform and airborne equipment. The flight control has a data communication interface, which can perform actions according to the commands of the ground end, such as line patrol and mapping, Mount infrared or professional cameras for shooting and recording, and realize the remote control of airborne equipment.

Due to the diversified use of UAVs such as industrial applications, it is obvious that a single model can not meet the diverse use needs. Therefore, most UAV enterprises customize UAVs according to specific needs, and select the appropriate configuration for combination according to the required configuration and load to produce UAVs. The flight control shall be selected and debugged according to the size and weight of the rack, and the aircraft functions shall be expanded by means of flight control programming. Therefore, UAV can enter more industries and complete missions stably, which is inseparable from flight control.

Xinjiang will accelerate its layout, and the pattern change remains to be seen

Earlier this year, Dajiang released a high-end flight control - A3 multi rotor flight control system, which can not only consolidate its position in the high-end flight control market, but also continue to enter the application field of professional industry through flight control. At present, there are agricultural plant protection machine mg-1 and professional film and television aerial camera M600 equipped with A2 flight control in Dajiang. Will it enter more industries with flight control in the future? It's worth looking forward to.

Although the current popularity of industry application of UAV is very high, the air outlet of UAV has passed, and capital no longer pays attention to it. The sharp price reduction adopted by Dajiang will inevitably have an impact on manufacturers in the industry, stir up ripples, and the subsequent butterfly effect will continue. What will happen to the UAV market pattern after that? Let's wait and see.