Developed a self-propelled attached drone “PD6-CI-L” that can inspect both ceilings and vertical walls.

PRODRONE Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Naka-ku, Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture, President and CEO: Masakazu Kono, hereinafter referred to as PRODRONE) is pleased to announce that it has developed a self-propelled attached drone "PD6-CI-L" that is capable of inspecting both horizontal and vertical walls for the social infrastructure inspection market. This machine will be on display at the PRODRONE booth at InterDrone 2016, an industrial drone trade show to be held in Las Vegas, USA from September 7th to 9th, 2016. Currently, in the social infrastructure inspection market, a variety of drones are being used to conduct inspections, especially with the aim of inspecting 700,000 bridges nationwide, but most of these have been developed with the focus on inspecting objects while hovering in the air. However, bridge inspections are often carried out under unique environments such as strong gusts of wind, and traditional aerial hovering often fails to perform sufficient inspections. Based on this background, PRODRONE announced in April 2016 the revolutionary infrastructure inspection drone "PD4-CI", which can perform stable bridge inspections by self-propelling on the ceiling while sticking directly to the inspection target using negative pressure, instead of the conventional hovering inspection, and received extremely high praise from market participants. The newly developed "PD6-CI-L" has been significantly improved so that in addition to the previous inspection of ceiling surfaces (horizontal surfaces), the same machine can also perform adhesion inspections of wall surfaces (vertical surfaces), which have been particularly requested by market participants. This makes it possible to use it not only for bridge inspections but also for wall inspections of general buildings. Regarding the specific product outline, we will notify you as a new product announcement once the details have been finalized.

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■Specifications (tentative)

Distance between motor shafts

: 600mm (for levitation) 418mm (front)

Maximum payload

:2kg

Aircraft weight

:6kg

Maximum speed

: 5km/h (self-propelled speed at the time of inspection) 20km/h (during flight)

Overall height

:720mm

Wind speed for flight

:5m/s (excluding sticking inspection)

Propeller diameter

:15inch

Flight time

:10min

Battery

:22.2v/6000mAh x2

Flight altitude

:3000m

Others

: Self-propelled wheels x6 for sticking inspection

*Model number and specifications are subject to change without notice.

■About Prodrone Co., Ltd.

PRODRONE is a B2B industrial drone system manufacturer established in Japan in January 2015 by experts with over 20 years of experience and know-how in various fields. To date, we have developed a variety of industrial drones for the numerous drone service providers and drone manufacturers entering the industrial drone market. Large drones with a payload of 30kg, laser surveying drones, high-altitude surveying drones over 5,500m, water landing drones, RFID high-speed reading drones, bridges and other social infrastructure inspection drones, all-weather large platforms, pesticide spraying drones, and numerous academic research drones all require a high level of technology, and many of them are impossible for other companies to develop. By responding quickly and reliably to these highly difficult development requests, PRODRONE has earned an extremely high level of trust from a variety of customers, including government agencies and major corporations. PRODRONE wants its customers, industrial drone operators, to expand their business around the world.

Company name

:PRODRONE Co., Ltd.

Representative

: Masakazu Kono, Representative Director and President

Capital

: 295 million yen

Number of employees

: 13 people

Head office location

: 16th floor, Sakatane Sakae Building, 2-4 Shinei-cho, Naka-ku, Nagoya, Aichi 460-0004

Website

： https://www.prodrone.com/