Drone Airspace Allocation Bias Suppression via Historical Usage Feedback

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Solution Overview

Problem

The allocation of flight airspace to aircraft can lead to bias among business operators, reducing competitiveness and potentially promoting oligopoly, as some operators receive more airspace than others.

Innovation Solution

An information processing apparatus that accumulates allocation results for each business operator and prioritizes airspace allocation based on accumulated airspace amounts, requested airspace, attributes such as speed limits, and the number of aircraft using the airspace, as well as the performance of the aircraft, to ensure fair distribution.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If flight airspace is allocated based on allocation requests from business operators, then the airspace allocation can be efficiently processed, but bias may occur where some operators receive more airspace than others, reducing competitiveness

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveairspace allocation efficiencyVSAvoidallocation fairness
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system accumulates historical allocation results for each business operator and uses this feedback information to determine priority in subsequent allocation decisions. By continuously monitoring and utilizing past allocation data, the system creates a feedback loop that adjusts future allocations to prevent bias and promote fairness while maintaining efficient processing

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes the allocation parameter from simple request-based distribution to a priority-based system that incorporates accumulated allocation results. This parameter change allows the system to consider historical usage patterns and adjust allocation decisions accordingly, preventing certain operators from consistently receiving more airspace

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Reliability

If priority is given to business operators with smaller accumulated airspace amounts, then allocation fairness is improved, but the complexity of determining priority increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveallocation fairnessVSAvoidpriority determination complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary accumulation of allocation results for each business operator before making allocation decisions. By pre-processing and storing historical allocation data, the system simplifies the priority determination process during actual allocation, as the accumulated data is ready for immediate use in calculating priority without requiring complex real-time calculations

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS11380209B2Information processing apparatus
Publication Date: 2022.07.05 NTT DOCOMO INC
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AI summary

Allocation result accumulation unit accumulates allocation results of each business operator that requests allocation of flight airspace of drone. Allocation result accumulation unit accumulates, as the allocation results, an allocated airspace amount represented by the size of allocated flight airspace and the period in which flight in the flight airspace is permitted. When allocation requests are received from multiple business operators, flight airspace allocation unit allocates flight airspace by giving priority to a high priority business operator according to the allocation results accumulated in allocation result accumulation unit with respect to each business operator. Flight airspace allocation unit allocates the flight airspace by assigning a higher priority to a business operator for which the allocated airspace amount that has been accumulated is small.