University of Innopolis tests successfully a mail drone
The Russian University of Innopolis and the company ENIKS successfully tested a mail drone.
The Т16 robocourier delivered a parcel at a distance of 38 km and returned back. The total flight range was 76 km. It took it an hour to deliver the parcel and return back.
During the tests, T16 flew at a speed of 65 km/h at an altitude of 500 m. According to the engineers, the UAV's maximum speed is 130 km/h, the altitude is up to 4 km, and the maximum possible distance is up to 150 km.
The drone dropped the parcel within 1 meter of the calculated point. Developers want to increase the accuracy of the load in the urban environment to a centimeter.
In addition to postal goods, T16 will be able to deliver medicines, provisions and any other correspondence to hard-to-reach places. "Sometimes, to deliver a cargo by land, one needs to go around 200-300 km, overcome mountains, rivers, etc.," said Alexander Klimchik, head of the Robotics Development Center. "UAV will save money and will deliver cargo directly, reducing the distance to 25-30 km."
According to Klimchik, now Innopolis is developing an AI-based control system, which will allow the robocourier to adjust the route during the flight and to take into account obstacles encountered along the way, Vesti reports.
