Drone Imaging Range Sharing for Conflict-Free Route Planning
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Solution Overview
Problem
In systems with multiple moving bodies, such as drones, the imaging range of one drone is often unknown, leading to the possibility of another drone appearing within its imaging range, causing operational conflicts.
Innovation Solution
An information processing apparatus and method that acquires state and performance information from both the moving object and its imaging unit, calculates the imageable region, and transmits this information to prevent overlap by generating a moving route that avoids the imageable region of other drones.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multiple moving bodies operate in the same space without sharing imaging range information, then each moving body can operate independently, but another moving body may appear in the imaging range of one moving body causing operational conflicts
Solution Approach 1:
The system establishes a feedback mechanism where each moving body transmits its imaging range information to others, and receives imaging range information from others. This feedback loop enables real-time awareness of overlapping imaging ranges, allowing moving bodies to adjust their operations to prevent conflicts while maintaining independent operation capabilities
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces imaging range information as an intermediary element that mediates between multiple moving bodies. By sharing this information, the system enables indirect communication about spatial relationships and potential conflicts without requiring direct sensing or complex coordination protocols between each pair of moving bodies
2Reliability
If each moving body calculates and avoids the imageable region of others, then operational conflicts are reduced, but the calculation load and communication requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the imaging range information from each moving body and transmits it separately to other moving bodies. This extraction approach simplifies the system by allowing each body to independently obtain and process only the necessary imaging range data without needing to handle complete environmental maps or complex coordination information
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary calculation and transmission of imaging range information before potential conflicts occur. By pre-calculating and sharing imaging ranges, moving bodies can plan their trajectories in advance to avoid overlapping regions, reducing the need for complex real-time collision avoidance calculations during operation
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[Object] To propose an information processing apparatus, a moving body, an information processing system, an information processing method, and a program that are capable of capable of ensuring that another moving body does not appear in an imaging range of a moving body.[Solving Means] An information processing apparatus according to the present technology includes: an acquisition unit; and a control unit. The acquisition unit acquires state information of an imaging unit of a moving body (10). The control unit calculates an imageable region (D) of the imaging unit on the basis of the state information. The information processing apparatus transmits information regarding the imageable region to a moving body (20).