Technology Overview
High-Payload Commercial Drones for Infrastructure Maintenance.
ITRI has developed a high-payload commercial drone for infrastructure maintenance, which provides a short-range servo water anchor function within 2 meters and safety solution for the needs of precise aerial operations such as transmission towers and wind turbines maintenance. Furthermore, ITRI will cooperate with enterprises to conduct field testing and create innovative business models for capturing the opportunities of the ongoing buildout of renewable energy infrastructure in the next two decades and beyond.
Applications & Benefits
With its high-payload, long-endurance drone, ITRI won the final prize in the multi-rotor category at the Drone X Challenge 2020 held by Abu Dhabi-based innovation hub Krypto Labs, becoming the only R&D institution in Asia to achieve such an honor.