Personal Drone Shading Control for User-Following Assistance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current drones are not designed to provide personal assistance or services to users, such as shade, entertainment, or communication, despite their capabilities in filmmaking and surveillance.
Innovation Solution
A drone system that tracks a user's position and the sun's position, providing continuous shade by flying between the user and the sun, and includes features like air ducts with louvres, lights, misting, and entertainment capabilities, all controllable via a mobile device.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Object-affected harmful factors
If the drone flies between the user and the sun to provide shade, then the user's comfort is improved, but the drone's energy consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The drone dynamically adjusts its position, altitude, and orientation to maintain optimal shading coverage while managing energy consumption. The system continuously tracks the user's movement and the sun's position, making real-time adjustments to the drone's flight parameters to provide shade efficiently without excessive energy use.
Solution Approach 2:
The drone changes operational parameters such as flight height, horizontal position, and rotational orientation to optimize shading performance. By adjusting these parameters dynamically, the drone can provide effective shade coverage while minimizing the time and energy spent in high-power consumption states.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the drone includes multiple features like lights, misting, and entertainment components, then the user's comfort and entertainment are improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The drone is designed as a multi-functional platform that integrates diverse assistance capabilities including shading, lighting, misting, and entertainment functions. This universal design allows a single device to provide multiple types of user assistance, reducing the need for separate devices while managing complexity through integrated system architecture.
Solution Approach 2:
Multiple assistance functions are merged into a single drone system, combining shading mechanisms, lighting components, misting systems, and entertainment devices into one integrated platform. This consolidation provides comprehensive user assistance while managing complexity through unified control and shared hardware resources.
3Ease of operation
If the drone maintains a constant position relative to the user, then the user's interaction capability is improved, but the drone's positioning precision requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The drone employs feedback mechanisms to continuously monitor its position relative to the user and make real-time adjustments. Sensors track the user's location and the drone's own position, feeding this information back to the control system which adjusts flight parameters to maintain the desired relative positioning, thereby managing precision requirements through active correction.
Solution Approach 2:
The drone autonomously maintains its position relative to the user through self-correction mechanisms. The system automatically adjusts its flight path and orientation based on real-time position data, eliminating the need for manual intervention and reducing the burden on the user while managing positioning precision through automated control algorithms.
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AI summary
An aerial drone system configured to serve as personal drone assistance is disclosed. The drone assistant is configured to follow the user and provide (1) audiovisual output including video, audio, and navigation, (2) environmental comfort including shade, light, misters for the benefit of the user, as well as (3) privacy and security. To provide audiovisual output, the drone is configured to track the user and maintain a constant height and distance relative to the user, preferably a few feet away in front of the user. To provide environmental comfort including shade, for example, the drone is configured to automatically maintain a position between the user and the sun, thus causing a shadow to be continually cast on the user. This shading is enhanced by specialized louvres and screens configured to prevent any direct sunlight from directly impinging on the user.