On November 25, 2024, DJI Agriculture officially released three agricultural drones, the T100 and T70 series, all of which incorporate new AI and AR features to further enhance safety and meet a wide range of operational scenarios such as spraying, spreading, and lifting. The T100 is the new flagship agricultural drone, with a spraying load of 75 kg, a spreading capacity of 150 liters, and a lifting capacity of 85 kg; the T70 series of agricultural drones are more affordable, but also offer a much improved performance over its predecessor, the flagship T60 agricultural drone; and the T25P agricultural drone, which was released last year, is still available for sale.
T100 series
The T100 agricultural drone is the most efficient, the largest rated takeoff weight, the most advanced safety system, and the first flagship agricultural drone equipped with AI and AR functions in DJI’s agricultural history. Its maximum takeoff weight reaches 149.9 kg, with 75 liters of spraying capacity and 150 liters of sowing capacity and 85 kg of lifting. It adopts a co-axial dual-rotor configuration with higher safety redundancy, 62-inch carbon fiber paddles with strong power, and a maximum single-axis pulling force of 82 kg, capable of flying at a maximum speed of 13.8 m/sec. This means that both the load, configuration and performance are up to the standard of a fully loaded flagship.
In order to cope with the complex farmland environment and ensure the safety of the flyer, surrounding people and vehicles, the T100 has upgraded its safety system to the “top of the line”. Equipped with new LIDAR and active phased array radar, it can sense and accurately recognize obstacles in all directions. Lidar captures spatial point cloud density of up to 300,000 per second, which can finely depict the boundary of obstacles, effectively improve the recognition rate of diagonal wires and electric wires, and take in the small obstacles in the field as far as the eye can see. Together with the new five-eye fisheye vision system can 360-degree real-time perception of the environment, and through the remote control real-time warning to protect the takeoff safety. In the operation process, real-time observation of the surrounding obstacles and can automatically display the obstacle screen in any flight direction.
The new AI algorithm can automatically recognize obstacles encountered in the operation and save the information of the plot, which improves the efficiency of the operation in the same plot and makes it safer and safer to fly. It also has the ability to get out of trouble after avoiding obstacles, and it can resume operation autonomously without operation after braking. At the same time, this year also added the AR safety assistance function, detecting people and cars around during takeoff and landing, and reminding the flyer to pay attention to the surrounding environment in a timely manner. The AR flight track can also be generated during operation to help pilots predict the direction of the airplane. When returning to the airport, new safe landing projection is added to ensure the smoothness of landing. The new AI and AR functions comprehensively protect safety and avoid accidental injuries. In addition, T100 continues the flight test-free function, and can realize the maximum 90-degree mountain climb, which meets the operational needs of most of the orchards.
Spraying pesticides is the most common use of agricultural drones, T100 spraying load of 75 kg, dual nozzle maximum flow rate up to 30 liters per minute, droplet size 50 to 500 microns adjustable, no need to add to meet the large flow of operational scenarios. For fruit trees thick canopy operation needs of users, can choose four water-cooled mist nozzle, flow rate of up to 40 liters per minute, dual-motor water-cooled structure, durable, droplet size up to 10 microns, droplet uniformity and density, outstanding operational efficiency, excellent results.
In terms of spreading, the T100 spreading system has a capacity of 150 liters and can spread two bags of fertilizer at a time. With the new generation of screw reamer, the flow rate is doubled to 400 kilograms per minute, and the torque of the reamer motor is doubled, which supports high-speed spreading and improves the comprehensive working efficiency by 70%. Four types of augers can be replaced to suit a wide range of particles for more precise spreading.
Agricultural drones are now also widely used for lifting materials, but lifting operations are difficult to operate, and cargo swinging in the air can be dangerous. For this reason, the T100 is also designed to be a professional lifter. With the optional lifting module, the T100 has a lifting capacity of 85 kilograms, which enables it to carry more and farther, and even lift the charging station it needs for its own operation directly up the mountain. During the flight, with the three-way force sensor can intelligently adjust the attitude, can automatically eliminate cargo swing, to ensure smooth transportation. Larger remote control screen and better image transmission also bring more convenience for lifting. In addition, T100 supports cell phone to set “loading” and “unloading” points, AR real-time display of the destination point location through the remote control, manual transportation can quickly find the loading point and unloading point, and automatic flight is hassle-free and efficient. It also supports weight detection to avoid overweight and facilitate settlement.
In order to provide stable and continuous energy supply, the new intelligent flight battery is more powerful and lighter. Energy dissipation has always been a difficult problem in the industry, and how to ensure the safety and stability of energy on the basis of effective heat dissipation is another problem that DJI Agriculture has overcome this year. This year’s newly designed three-airway design dissipates heat from the battery through the runner design, ensuring safe and stable energy while truly achieving safe heat dissipation and heat dissipation while flying. With D14000iE all-around inverter charging station, 9-minute high-speed fast charging, lower fuel consumption, and effective saving of operating costs. What’s more, there is a brand-new on-board charger, which is quiet to replenish energy, green and environmentally friendly, suitable for electric vehicle users.
T70 series
The new T70 series of agricultural drones combines cost-effectiveness with multi-scenarios and stability, lowering the barrier to entry. This series also meets the needs of spraying, spreading, lifting and transportation, etc. The performance of this series is also more powerful than the previous T60, with a load capacity of 50 kg for spraying and 70 kg for spreading, and the T70P is equipped with a 70-liter medicine tank and a long-lasting 41-ampere-hour battery, which further upgrades the loading capacity and range, and greatly improves the efficiency. However, with a series of lightweight designs such as the swinging paddle, the T70 series is also 10 kilograms lighter than the T60.
In terms of safety system, T70 series are equipped with trinocular vision system and front and rear active phased array radar, also integrating new AI and AR functions, to guarantee the safety of the aircraft in take-off and landing and operation, and avoid accidental injury.AI algorithm can automatically identify obstacles encountered in operation and save the information into the plot, to improve the efficiency of the operation in the same plot, and the more the more the safer the flight. It also has the ability to avoid obstacles and get out of trouble, and can resume operation without operation after braking. The newly added AR safety assistance function detects people and cars around during takeoff and landing, reminding the flyer to pay attention to the surrounding environment in time. The AR flight track can be generated during operation to help pilots predict the direction of the airplane. When returning, the AR can display the return point to quickly find the return direction, and when landing, there is a safe landing projection to assist in checking the environmental safety on the landing route.
T70 series lifting weight 65 kg, also support cell phone set “loading”, “unloading” point, through the remote control can AR real-time display destination point location, manual transportation can quickly find the loading point and unloading point, automatic flight saving and efficient. It also supports weight detection to avoid overweight and facilitate settlement.
In terms of energy, T70 series batteries have higher energy density, lighter batteries, and faster charging speed, 30% to 95% charging time can be controlled in less than 8 minutes, which means that two sets of batteries can be used for cyclic operation without the need for machine and other batteries. And through the further optimization of the power system, the energy consumption is further reduced under the same operating area and operating effect. It can save 25% of power consumption in one sortie, 25% of fuel cost per day, and lower cost of use.