Introduction
Introducing a new player in the consumer drone market. Atlas Dynamics, with the direct participation of Yi-technology, announced the start of pre-orders for the fastest household drone - the YI ERIDA tricopter. The project itself was launched back in 2014, and only two years later, the Atlas Dynamics and Yi-technology development team managed to finally prepare the product for mass production.
The Atlas Dynamics team is world famous people in the field of aircraft modeling, IT analysis, design and development of corporate proposals, in the study of color image processing methods using FPGA technologies (as a hardware implementation of algorithms), Ruby software on Rails (RoR), in microprocessor design and software development.
Yi Tech CEO Sean Da, noted, “As a result of the alliance between Atlas Dynamics and Yi-technology, three issues have been resolved: design complexity, product availability for any consumer, and extreme short flight time. The Erida drone, like any of our other products, is a high-tech, intuitive and price-competitive product. This is the embodiment of many years of painstaking work in the field of photography, video filming and aeronautics. We took into account all the shortcomings of products from well-known UAV brands and thereby implemented a new standard in the unmanned industry. "
Yi-technology is owned by the famous brand Xiaomi, which is famous for its action cameras, which are not inferior in quality to the famous GoPro.
The YI ERIDA sports tricopter is a premium drone with an impressive maximum horizontal flight speed of 120 km / h and an equally impressive flight duration. According to the developers, the maximum flight time of the tricopter is 40 minutes. And all this thanks to the 3-beam carbon construction. The drone has become lighter and therefore requires less energy (compared to a quadcopter).
Features
- Tricopter
- Durable and lightweight foldable carbon structure
- Autonomous flight modes
- Max. flight time 40 minutes
- Max. horizontal flight speed 120 km / h
- Max. FPV flight range 5km
- Positioning GPS / GLONASS
- 12MP 4K camera in 3-axis mechanical gimbal
- Monitoring and control via mobile application "ERIDA"
- Ready to Fly Out of the Box
Appearance
Specification
Drone
Camera
Power
Frame
The front arms of the YI ERIDA tricopter are now foldable. The drone can be easily stowed in a small bag. This portability will be appreciated by travelers and outdoor enthusiasts. The manufacturer also took care of the portable case, it is quite roomy and has the dimensions of a mid-size backpack and is also made of carbon.
The YI ERIDA tricopter is mainly made of carbon, one of the strongest and lightest materials around.
Camera
The tricopter has a high-speed 4k camera with 12MP CMOS sensor IMX377 from Sony, mounted in a 3-axis mechanical gimbal.
Gimbal adapted for pairing with GoPro cameras.
The action camera was developed by Yi-technology specialists, it is a top product, so there is no need to worry about the picture quality, as mentioned above. FPV flight is implemented via Wi-Fi, the first-person picture will be displayed on a mobile device. The mobile application "ERIDA" is maximally adapted for the intuitive operation of the drone.
Management
Management and control is carried out by means of a mobile device through the "ERIDA" application.
Range and Flight Modes
In addition to impressive flight times, the YI ERIDA drone has several other top-end capabilities. For example, the maximum flight range is 4 km. In addition to altitude hold, auto takeoff and landing, YI ERIDA has 6 autonomous flight modes:
- Follow - the drone follows the object at a user-specified altitude and distance.
- Mission - flight on a predetermined route.
- Random - the drone randomly selects the flight mode, and also performs a mode change during the flight.
- Orbit - the drone flies around the object at a user-specified height and distance.
- Focus - allows the drone to focus on any object the user wants.
- Beam - in this mode, the drone is controlled by the position of the mobile device in space due to the accelerometer and gyroscope built into the gadget.
Price
The branded online store Xiaomi. Express offers the YI ERIDA tricopter at a price of1 450$, although it is still available no.
Conclusion
Atlas Dynamics offered its view on unmanned devices and clearly showed that a drone does not need to have 4 rotors. And this at a time when other leaders in the home UAV industry focused exclusively on quadcopters. Due to the lack of competition, the YI ERIDA tricopter has every chance of gaining consumer acceptance.
Continued from Atlas Dynamics: YI Erida and Atlas Pro drones coming soon!
Video
Video with YI ERIDA tricopter.
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