Drone Flight Route Control for Package Drop Hazard Avoidance
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Solution Overview
Problem
The probability of accidents occurring due to packages being dropped during transport by flying objects, such as drones, is not adequately addressed by existing technologies, posing a safety risk to residents in areas where drone flights are prevalent.
Innovation Solution
A controller system that detects the state of points along a flight route, determining whether to include specific positions as passing points for a flying object, thereby adjusting the flight route to avoid areas with people, vehicles, or shielding objects, ensuring safer transport of packages.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of time
If the flying object flies along a direct flight route to transport the package, then the transport time is reduced, but the probability of package being dropped and causing accident increases
Solution Approach 1:
The control unit determines the flight route in advance by detecting the state of points (presence of people, vehicles, shielding objects) before the flying object departs. This preliminary route planning ensures that the flying object avoids hazardous areas, reducing the probability of package drop accidents while maintaining efficient transport timing.
2Reliability
If the controller avoids areas with people, vehicles, and shielding objects by adjusting the flight route, then the safety is improved, but the flight route complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The control unit dynamically adjusts the flight route based on detected states of various points in the transport area. By making the route adaptable rather than fixed, the system can avoid hazardous areas (people, vehicles, shielding objects) while maintaining reasonable route complexity through automated real-time adjustments.
3Reliability
If the controller detects the state of multiple points along the flight route, then the safety is improved, but the detection complexity and time increase
Solution Approach 1:
The transport area is divided into multiple discrete points that are individually detected by the control unit. This segmentation approach allows systematic safety assessment of each point (checking for people, vehicles, shielding objects) while keeping the detection process organized and manageable, improving overall safety without excessive complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
A controller includes a control unit. The control unit is configured to detect a state of at least one point, and determine depending on the detected state whether or not to include, in a flight route of a flying object transporting a package, a position above the at least one point as a passing point for the flying object to pass.