China News Agency, Hengyang, July 18th, Question: "Post-95" and team to develop medical logistics drones: "Express" such as pathological specimens
Author Wang Haohao Xu Zhixiong
Test flight, overhaul, perfect programming... Located in the studio of Hunan Kurisi Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. in Hengyang, Hunan, "post-95" guy Tan Jialong and his team are intensively developing and upgrading the second generation of medical logistics drones.
The first-generation medical logistics drone developed by them has been successfully flown more than 300 times in the Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanhua University in the same city. Prior to this, the hospital's pathological specimens, blood and other medical samples need to be manually delivered to the pathology department building for inspection. It takes at least 20 minutes or more. Medical logistics drone delivery only needs to send the medical samples to the roof apron, loading warehouse, After setting the route, it can take off automatically and reach the apron on the top floor of the target department in tens of seconds. The whole journey only takes about 70 seconds.
"The first-generation aircraft successfully flew for the first time at the Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanhua University in September 2019. This hospital is the first hospital in China to use a drone logistics transmission system. The second-generation aircraft is expected to be available in September this year, and the parachute, airbag, Positioning device, battery life and other parts." Tan Jialong said.
Shorten more than 20 minutes to less than 2 minutes, which can win the golden treatment time for patients. This little-seen application scenario was actually developed by Tan Jialong and a group of young people in their early 20s.
Tan Jialong, 25, was hooked on drones when he was in college. With the increasing popularity of drones in recent years, he quit his job in the medical industry in January 2018 and established a company that focuses on drone applications-Curris Technology.
"When I used to work, many medical workers often talked to me about the transportation difficulties of pathological specimens: the general hospital pathology department and other departments are not in the same building, and the pathological sections of cancer patients or patients with special cases need to be sent to the pathology department as soon as possible. Inspection, but traditional manual distribution is time-consuming and labor-intensive, can there be a better way?" Tan Jialong said.
Inspired by this, Tan Jialong embarked on the road of research and development of medical logistics drones. He and his colleagues found that most of the hospitals in China have the above problems.
"At that time, the drone logistics distribution had just started, and the automatic flight conditions had a drop error of about 10 meters. It could not be fully automated and precise. Medical distribution requirements are higher, and once pathological specimens and patient blood are damaged, they cannot be recovered." Tan Jialong said that if the barriers for point-to-point precision delivery of drones can be broken, not only can they get a generous order, but they can also open up new markets.
In September 2018, the Tan Jialong team began research in related fields. A few months later, they reached an industry-university-research cooperation agreement with Nanhua University to jointly develop medical logistics drones. Due to the large funding gap, they support R&D expenses by selling consumer drones and undertaking aerial photography businesses.
"A large number of flight tests were required during the research and development process. We crashed nearly 30 drones. Finally, we strictly controlled the landing error to within 10 cm." With the success of medical logistics drones, the Tan Jialong team has achieved 2 practical New patents, 13 computer software copyrights.
"In the future, we will carry out regional networking upgrades for fixed-point distribution medical logistics drones, and gradually develop and build command center platforms at the municipal, provincial, and even national levels, so that hospitals in relevant regions can achieve medical resources such as blood and pathological specimens." "." Tan Jialong said that after the relevant technology is further mature, its team will also develop professional fire drone and other products. (Finish)