Quads Are DEAD! VTOLs Are The Next BIG Thing.
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- čas přidán 12. 06. 2024
- Mapping large areas used to be a challenging task when using traditional quadcopter drones. However, in this video, we will explore the Quantum Systems Trinity Pro fixed-wing VTOL drone. Our client is considering the use of VTOLs over their traditional enterprise quadcopters, and they have turned to us to test and assess the efficiency of this system.
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00:00 Intro
00:56 What Are VTOLs?
01:28 The History Of VTOLs
03:18 Client Call For Data Capture Project
04:58 Mission Planning w/ QBase
07:10 Setting Control On Site
07:42 Flying The Trinity Pro VTOL!
08:42 Data Processing Workflow
11:49 Ortho Data Review
13:04 LiDAR Data Review
14:09 Client Feedback
15:27 Are VTOLs The Next Big Thing
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Amazing video my friend. Glad we got to hang out during our flight back home. Keep up the great work
Simply amazing content that i can share with some of my clients! Thanks Dykan again for being such an awesome content creator for the drone industry!
Nice video, lots of great information. There isn't much out there on how to use Qbase or the Trinity drones. I would love to see more on the post processing, thank you for sharing.
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Dude! Great video. Thanks for sharing!
Appreciate you checking it out!
Bro really said that drones are dead 😹 drones are just in the beginning
Conversation starter 😉
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He said quads are dead, though?
Quads have always been a distraction, and really, outside of quad racing and tight environment film making, they're rarely the best choice for eany job, and they eat so many batteries per working day that you need shares in a lithium mine to recoup costs.
Heli's like Yamaha's R-Max and Fazer are better for agriculture and some cinema applications, wings are better for mapping and deliveries, especially these VTOL ones. Sports with big areanas, like sportscar racing, NASCAR, various horse racing, golf, mountain bike racing, those could really take advantage of VTOL, for the ability to hover or chase for a shot, stay airborn longer, and be much quieter gliding past at low throttle while a gimbal keeps a camera on the action. For the animal participant events like gallops or greyhounds, the lower noise will be less issue to have accidentally spook the animals.
News crews, emergency services, security, police, all could take advantage of these to get on site quicker - A police dept could launch one from thier own carpark or rooftop, and have it loiter over an incident scene before officers are even able to arrive. The level of co-ordination that the overview vision will enable, will save lives and save money.
@@PiDsPagePrototypesinfrastructure inspections like towers, power lines, bridges, and other low lying captures…. Real estate photography, videography… Roof inspections, crash scene photogrammetry, and so many others!
Great Video as always. How much did that project cost the client?
This would cost between $11,000-$17,000 depending on what a client would be needing.
Hi Dylan. Your videos have been very inspirational, Thank you. I just have one question I am hoping you can help me with. I really liked your video about how your Mini 3 makes you $2500 a month. I already have all the equipment but I am having trouble finding a download for Luma AI that I can install on my MacBook Pro. When I use the link from the video it seems to be for iphone. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Cheers
Have you seen the cl-84 videos?
It's an excellent tilt-wing design that makes very good use of the wings in the vertical mode, allowing excellent yaw/rotation control of the platform, and the tilted wing provides good STOL performance, for applications (many) that have enough room for STOL operation, saving some degree of battery life...anyway, the winged drone allows for much longer loitering times, with quieter, more energy-efficient loitering in motion, but with quite quick transition to fully vertical operation.
The CL-84 is so cool!
It's kind of up topic, but what kind of trim is your f 150 power boost? Watchjng the old travel vids and looking into getting one. Thanks, you're awesome 👌
Haha, it’s the XLT trim
Nice video, that VTOL looks awesome! Minor recommendation, normalize your audio, the difference between your music track and the audio track is pretty insane. Or at least give viewers a volume warning next time?
Hey Dylan, great video, I’m relatively new to the field. How do you maintain VLOS on sites where there are a large amount of trees and large distances?
Bigger drone plus having VOs on site allows for longer VLOS range
Interesting video - I wonder if VTOLs will ever reach favor outside of the photogrammetry market? Quick note, if you put a polarizing filter on your studio camera, it might cut the reflection of your keylight off of the logo on the green wall.
I didn’t have any polarizers on hand, plus I’m not in that studio anymore so all new backgrounds from here on out!
@@DylanGorman not a criticism - just a tip in case you didn’t know! Looking forward to the new space 🙌🏼
The use cases are expanding! Our BVLOS VTOL fixed-wing has a wide variety of payloads like live feed gimbal, multi spec, thermals, etc. We are working on more such as a magnetometer and a methane measuring payload.
What kind of computer specifications do you use for your photogrammetry ? I’m just wondering because I’m not sure what i would need when buying a computer.
Any $1500 gaming computer will be more than enough for photogrammetry processing!
@@DylanGorman ok thank you
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The better the specs the faster it will go. You can use a slow, cheap computer but it'll take much longer. If you're only doing small projects that may not be a factor but if you're doing medium to large projects you'll want all the processing power you can afford.
Nice information
Thank you!
One hour and a half?
What brand of battery does it use, Amprius?
in wich country are you? i´m interested by your drone course
Which LIDAR sensor did you use and how easy was it to mount that payload in the Trinity?
I think you missed an opportunity to call out the endurance of the aircraft in the mission planning phase. I caught that the flight plan was almost 2 hours for the photo capture but was going to be able to finish on just one battery with 8% charge remaining. That much area without having to swap batteries is pretty amazing!
Quantum Systems has an array of plug and play sensors that you can purchase as add-ons. The LiDAR that we used is from Yellow Scan and it only takes about 5 min to swap out one payload for another. We were able to complete this initial mission with one battery swap and still had a reserve of 85% when we landed with the second battery as most of the battery drainage was on the landing and takeoff. With my quad system, it took about 6 battery swaps, almost 60 min worth of time was eaten up by waiting for the drone to come back and swap out batteries. I hope that explains some of the efficiencies gained!
What is the cost of the Quantum drone + Lidar sensor kit?
Enjoyed your video.
Glad you enjoyed it
What kind of accuracy are you getting with the LiDAR vs an R3 Pro?
Both very different systems with different results. Depending on what they client needs you can almost match the two system together but there are lots of variables that have to match up to get there.
VTOLs started catching on about 10 years ago, ours carry LiDAR and cover a deal of a way for surveys
VTOLs are awesome. I think they are just now getting to a price point that will allow for smaller firms to start leveraging them in house.
We just got this drone a month ago. It perfect for wide open areas but has downfalls in highly urban spots. Amazing system but my only problem would be having to setup a GCS and the xbox controller.
A system like the Trinity Pro is definitely harder to use in dense urban spots. Not the end all be all of systems but it is a pretty damn good one for the applications that can leverage all its efficiencies!
Great video as usual, I wasn't sure I caught where the efficiency gains were found...was it in faster data processing, or longer flight time? Was just trying to figure out how the VTOL improves upon what quads can do. If a quad captured the same amount of photos, wouldn't they process in the same amount of time? Would you have had to do multiple flights with a quad? Thanks!
VTOLS have longer flight times (~1hr is common) and fly faster (~40 mph is common) giving them the ability to capture more area per flight compared to a quad. Processing takes about the same time.
@@censystechnologiescorporat2321 thanks, so they can capture more in a single trip.
@@MaximoJoshua They capture more faster. Example, 1k acre job will take a fixed wing 1hr/ 1 flight and will take a quad ~5hr/ 5 flights
Hi Dylan, Enjoy watching all of your videos! Very informative and encouraging. My son is a sophomore in HS and is very interested in learning about drones, photogrammetry, surveying etc. I would love to discuss this with you if possible and help him get started in the right direction. I am 107 cert. and fly drones as part of my job, so I can help answer some questions, mapping, photogrammetry, are not in my wheelhouse as well as this new VTOLS technology! I would love to learn more about it and help get him headed in the right direction. Thank you in advance and look forward to hearing from you, Michael
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I'm interested in how you maintain line of sight on such large projects. The flight path setup shown in the video has long flight lines not small sections so it doesn't seem that you moved during the data acquisition.
700 acre rectangle is about 4000 feet by 8000 feet. If you were in the exact middle you would need to be able to see the drone a little over 4000 feet when it was at the end of the flight lines. Can you see that drone, that far away?
You’d be surprised at how far you can see this drone! We were able to see it clearly at 6000 feet away. We also had some VOs on site for our longer runs as a backup.
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That's awesome. if you had to have a dozen vo's that would reduce the practicality of it. I'm glad you're able to see it that far ❤
The engineer / survey company I work for has the trinity 90 + they pay to use my m350 or 3e the having to use a laptop and set up time they didn’t like. So now it sits in the storage closet lol. Solid drone tho
I've been using DJI drones since 2020, but since I've been introduced to the Quantum Systems Trinity Pro, I think it's ideal.
I'm currently using it on 70,000Ha for 3D modeling of cities
WOW! that is incredible to hear! I couldn't imagine doing a project like that with a regular quad system.
@@DylanGorman The whole management wanted us to use 02 of our M300 RTKs
Today, I'm proud to have been able to convince you not only of the Trinity pro's acquisition, but also of its ability to carry out tasks. We're off for a second Trinity pro with the D2M and also the Qube240.
@@binandip.axeltra7220 You ever looked at the Sentaero 5 and its BVLOS capabilities?
I saw one of these at a meetup in phx
What did you think of it?
@@DylanGorman honestly it had to be at the very beginning of the project because the vtol I seen looked as if it were hacked together and didn't actually fly !
Nice video....was there some AI voice in the voice with the video editing
A little! One of my mics went bad and I had to fix it
Could have done with more info on the flight difference and battery usage of the VTOL over a Quad. To the average drone pilot that pricetag is going to be eye-watering, but for a professional mapping and surveying contractor, it'll be good value for the money.
Question, as you're a Floridian, was it difficult to deal with all that Metric data? 😅
You right I should have added more context but I didn't want this to be a 20+ min video 😅. Honestly metric doesn't bother me that much but I always have a brain fart when doing conversions hah
DJI M300 captures ~250 acres per flight vs VTOLS capture ~900 acres per flight.
Still not allowed to fly beyond line of sight
You can see this drone so much further than a regular quad. Also you can apply for BVLOS or hey extra sets if eyes on your projects 😉
Our aircraft, the Sentaero 5, was built for BVLOS and has gotten approval for BVLOS operations with no VO's.
Ideally, a drone should take off like an airplaine, and land like a helicopter that is out of gas. Best way to use your batteries efficiently. An autorotation landing does not require power to the motors.
Is it legal to upload information paid for by your client?
My client gave us full permission to do so for this project
@@DylanGorman That's awesome. As complimentary courtesy, if they have a business, you could advertise them in your channel 🙂
It would be nice if all the photographers flew something different it might take some of the stress off of the rec pilots with less drones in the air
True!
So I get that VTOL is faster, but I really don't understand why it's faster. Maybe it's because I'm a noob, but the title made me think that I'd really understand why VTOL is better than quad. Pardon my inexperience or perhaps ignorance, maybe the information is there, or maybe it's clearer to more experienced viewers.
VTOL is more efficient when it comes to large data capture. It has to do with the aerodynamics of a plane flying and capturing data vs a big box with 4 motors flying in the sky capturing data. With my drone it took about 5-6 hours to capture this site, with a VTOL it took just under 2 hours to complete the same task.
Fixed wing drones generate lift from their wings so they can go much further on the same amount of energy.
The most efficient speed for fixed wing is higher than the most efficient speed for a quad so they can fly faster.
Flying further and faster gets the job done much quicker.
@DylanGorman Thanks for explaining! I also assume the quantum systems qbase software is part of the advantage. You were able to use the log file and combine it with the images and lidar to make the data more comprehensive for your client. Normally, with a quad, is that a more manual task?
By the way, I wasn't critiquing the video, it was very well done. Appreciate the time and effort that went into it and into your reply
Didn’t take it as a critique :). I appreciate you wanting to know the why rather than the alternative.
as a plane guy im going to have to say no nope nada to vtol
Why is that? It’s a different type of tool that can be excellent in certain scenarios. Not the end all be all of drones but one that is becoming really affordable!
Yea, why?
@@jerseyshoredroneservices225 just me love my planes thats all
Will it fit in my pack? 😉
If you fold it enough times I think you’ll manage haha
kinda hate the fact that that you use the word "leveraging", sounds like you are forcing someone else to participate in your project, unwillingly..
Poor choice of wording on my end, client was more than happy to work with me on this project!
First here, my man! Ha
Nope, that's dead as well when the FAA has all its laws in place.
Not gonna happen, FAA is actually very open to the idea of BVLOS.
Our VTOL Fixed wing was built for BVLOS and has over 45 approvals. Each waiver enabling more capabilities under the waiver.
not really. quads are more compact, simpler for hobbyists, etc.
I agree VTOL airplanes are far superior in many applications. but less accessible to certain markets. Quads aren't going anywhere.
Oh I know! I figure this would be a fun converstaion starter. I still use quads for a lot of my projects but sometimes it's a real pain using a quad on large sites.
@@DylanGorman it is a worthy conversation to have. I've struggled for years to explain to people that Quads don't scale up. all these "quad" air taxis will never be successful.
I would go to the various manned quad companies and grill them, and they knew surprisingly little. Traditional helicopters are far more capable, safer, and efficient at large scale. but having that conversation with people has proven difficult. I'm a big fan of the VTOL model at smaller scales where appropriate because it's just so much more efficient and capable.
I come at this as a CFI-I in both Airplanes and Helicopters, as well as holding Commercial UAS, and as a Mechanical and Aerospace Engineer. So it's not as if I don't know what I'm talking about when I approach these people. But getting them to understand and accept basic aerodynamics has been difficult. Things like autorotation, aspect ratio, Reynolds number implications, thrust to weight ratio, tip speed, weight, power requirements, limitations of parachutes, and much more.
Each type has its uses. Each application is best done with a particular type. People need to know the pros and cons of each, understand the limitations of each, to know what works where and why. I know hobbyists and stuff may not all care, and most don't need to for what they are doing. But commercial drone operators are trying to be profitable, and manned aircraft companies need to understand the limits of what they are trying to do to avoid needless death.
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Not a cheap drone.
Cost the exact same as the M350 with P1 camera!
@@DylanGorman That's not a cheap drone either. When I think cheap drone I am thinking of the DJI Mavic 3 Enterprise line.
When it comes to drones in the M350 line, this is a cheaper option. The M3E is an entirely different caliber of drone that shouldn’t even be compared to these higher end enterprise options.
@@DylanGorman Everyone has to start somewhere.
When your customer wants a high-end product of a large area you don't want a cheap drone. This isn't for the DSP who's servicing local builders with half acre lots.
They're also talking about using LIDAR which adds tens of thousands of dollars to the price of the gear. This whole video has nothing to do with the kind of situation where you would want a "cheap drone".
Too much bkah