Drone Flight Path Control Using Communication Quality Maps
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Solution Overview
Problem
Flying devices controlled via mobile telephone networks face challenges in maintaining communication quality due to factors like base station outages, rain, wind, and temperature changes, leading to inconsistent control information transmission and reception.
Innovation Solution
Incorporating an acquisition unit for communication quality information, a path determination unit to identify optimal flight paths based on communication quality, and a flight control unit to adjust flight paths and control the flying mechanism, ensuring continued operation even in areas with poor network coverage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the control device transmits control information via mobile telephone network, then the flying device can be controlled remotely, but the control reliability deteriorates due to communication quality changes caused by base station outages, rain, wind, and temperature
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by acquiring communication quality information in advance and determining optimal flight paths before the flying device encounters poor communication areas. The path determination unit uses pre-acquired communication quality data to plan routes that avoid areas with poor signal strength, ensuring the flying device remains in zones where control information can be reliably transmitted and received
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback by continuously monitoring communication quality information and using it to dynamically adjust flight paths. The path determination unit receives feedback on communication quality at different positions and modifies the flight path accordingly, steering the flying device toward areas with better signal strength to maintain reliable control
2Adaptability or versatility
If the flying device operates in areas with poor network coverage, then the flying device can reach remote locations, but communication quality deteriorates leading to loss of control
Solution Approach 1:
Before the flying device operates in remote areas, the system performs preliminary acquisition of communication quality information across the operational area. The path determination unit uses this pre-acquired data to identify and plan flight paths through regions with acceptable communication quality, ensuring the device can reach remote locations while maintaining control
Solution Approach 2:
The system applies dynamics by making the flight path adaptable and changeable based on real-time or pre-acquired communication quality data. Rather than following a fixed predetermined path, the path determination unit dynamically adjusts the flight path to navigate around areas with poor signal strength, allowing the flying device to reach remote areas while maintaining reliable communication
Data Source
AI summary
A flying device is provided, which includes: an acquisition unit that acquires communication quality information with which position information indicating a position and the communication quality at a position indicated by the position information are associated; a flight position identification unit that identifies a flight position, which is an in-flight position; a path determination unit that determines a flight path on the basis of the communication quality associated with the position information corresponding to the flight position in the communication quality information; and a flight control unit that controls a flying mechanism on the basis of the flight path determined by the path determination unit.