Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “DJI’s Hackable Quadcopter, the Matrice 100”.
My name is Eric Chang, I’m director of aerial imaging at DJI, and I’m here to show off the M 100, which is our new development platform for commercial applications of drums. This is a it’s. It’S really a development platform. I mean we resell it as a kit. It has a lot of the technology we’ve developed for inspire and phantom kind of bundled into it, as well as a brand new flight controller called the n1, and it’s really made to allow people to to build solutions for problems.
You know so you know we’re seeing a lot of interest in industry, of course, because drones can offer such an amazing, efficient efficiency gains, and you know enable people to do things they couldn’t do before, and so we wanted to have a platform to allow people to Really experiment to see you know what they could actually do with these things. You know a lot of the things. The integration that we put into products like the inspire one do exist in the m100. You know so you can just put the inspire camera on it. Talks to DJI pilot, which is our standard app, but much more, is exposed. So after you put it together, you’ll find that you know light bridges in there, of course, but now HDMI analog video these things these ports are exposed, so you can actually pipe those signals in to gauge it through to DJI pilot. So if you wanted to put a thermal camera on or near infrared camera on, you could do that yourself now. The other thing is that almost every part of the system has been exposed to the outside world via api’s, so our SDK, that our software development kit is much more advanced in in the m100 and of course it also supports inspire 1 and phantom 3.
So those three products kind of used, the same family of SDKs, and what we’ve done here is just break the parts pick the parts out so that you can use them either as part of them 100 or, of course, in your own, builds with even with here Now the thing that you see here that is not on any of other platforms is called guidance, and that’s this bar you see here so on all four sides of the m100 you’ll see the stereo camera and ultrasonic sent and received there’s also one on the bottom Of the unit that also comes with a brain for guidance and that package is sold separately or bundled in with m100, and what guidance is is sort of the first sense and avoid system from DJI out of the box. It will avoid objects, it will move away from objects that detects, but I think much more powerful is that guidance also has an SDK. So you can ask guidance for things like the stereo images that are coming from the cameras.
You can ask it for a list of for the objects that are in the way you can actually ask for a depth map, and it will give you one. So it’s sort of ready to go for people who want to use these systems in environments where you actually have to rely on autonomy to avoid objects. It’S designed to have modular Bay’s. You know that can hold things like batteries. You can put two batteries on. If you want and run for 40 minutes, you can put your own Linux, computer on and interface with ports that talk directly to the flight controller. So there’s an embedded SDK as well. So you don’t have to necessarily be writing mobile app code that talks over radio. So it’s designed to be very flexible that way. At the moment, our developer connections are all by registrations, so you do have to register at dev deegeu.com and we’re still doing two levels of registration, one for essentially read-only access and one for the ability to control the aircraft. So you know we want to know who is using our code so that it’s harder for people to do it deliciously, for example, and, and that seems to be working so well, you know pretty well so far. We’Ve had a ton of people who are very interested. It’S available on now, so we have started shipments. Our first customers are receiving them. I think you know one of the one of the complicated parts about how we’re distributing distributing them. 100. Is that we are going through our traditional dealer network. So you know, I think the message is really that, yes, you can buy one of these assemble. It fly it. You can attach things like other cameras and potentially use our existing infrastructure, but it’s really designed for you to code against.
You know it’s really an SDK platform that is designed to allow you to start experimenting with solutions for real problems that you have that you want to solve. So the M 100 is 3299. It comes with everything you need to fly to code again, so it has a flight controller, a battery of propulsion. The frame the optional components are guidance, so that does not equip me to come with it and that’s 999 camera and gimbal we’re not sure which camera gimbal you put on it. So that’s sold separately as well.
There’S also going forward gon na be probably a video encoder and a computer, these sorts of things, like other components that you could put on it. So it’s you know it’s really designed for you to put your own things on you, .