Integrated Long-Endurance Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Solution Empowered by Hydrogen-Electric Hybrid Power and Image Recognition
HydroFlight is a long-endurance UAV platform powered by a hydrogen fuel cell-lithium battery hybrid power system. It integrates high energy-density fuel cell modules, rapid 5- minute hydrogen refuelling, and an "eagle-eye" vision system featuring automatic image recognition to enable intelligent navigation. Driven by customers' mission requirements, the platform customizes the power system, visual recognition algorithms, and automatic navigation system according to the payload needs, flight profiles, and environmental conditions, while providing reliable "payload-endurance" support plans. With excellent endurance and payload capacity, HydroFlight is suitable for high-intensity tasks such as surveying, inspection, and rescue missions.
Mr Xu Yifan* (PhD, School of Energy and Environment, City University of Hong Kong)
Dr Xiong Wei (Dalian University of Technology)
Mr Feng Dongyu (PhD, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, City University of Hong Kong)
Miss Zhang Kouer (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Dr Zhu Lingyu (Alumnus, Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong)
Mr Hu Hao (Pukyong National University)
Dr Zhang Hanwen (Pukyong National University)
* Person-in-charge
(Info based on the team's application form)
- CityU HK Tech 300 Seed Fund (2025)