Drone Workpiece Delivery Control for Maintenance Downtime Reduction
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
In traditional maintenance operations, the lack of necessary tools or parts often requires maintenance personnel to interrupt their work and retrieve the required items from storage, leading to decreased efficiency, especially in narrow or complex environments.
Innovation Solution
A control method and apparatus for drone-assisted maintenance, which involves determining a target workpiece and its storage location in response to an assistance message, planning a flight path for the drone to transport the workpiece, and controlling the drone to transport the workpiece to the construction location.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If maintenance personnel return to warehouse to obtain tools or parts, then the necessary workpiece can be obtained, but maintenance efficiency decreases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
A drone is introduced as an intermediary carrier to transport workpieces between the warehouse and construction location. The drone receives transport requests from terminals, navigates to retrieve the workpiece, and delivers it to the maintenance personnel, eliminating the need for personnel to leave the construction site and thus maintaining high maintenance efficiency while ensuring workpiece availability.
2Quantity of substance
If maintenance personnel leave construction location to retrieve workpiece, then the absent workpiece is obtained, but maintenance operation time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The manual mechanical system of personnel physically traveling to the warehouse is replaced with an automated aerial drone system. The drone可以快速 navigate to the warehouse, retrieve the workpiece, and return to the construction location, significantly reducing the time required compared to manual retrieval and eliminating the need for maintenance personnel to interrupt their work.
3Quantity of substance
If traditional manual transport is used in narrow space or complex environment, then workpiece can be transported, but transport difficulty increases
Solution Approach 1:
The transport problem in narrow or complex ground environments is solved by transitioning to aerial three-dimensional space. The drone can fly overhead and deliver workpieces directly to the construction location, avoiding obstacles and difficult terrain that would impede ground-based manual transport, thereby significantly improving transport ease in challenging environments.
Data Source
Figure 1~2
Figure 3
AI summary
The present disclosure provides a control method and apparatus for drone-assisted maintenance, a device and a storage medium. The method includes: determining (S101) a target workpiece and a storage location thereof in response to an assistance message obtained by a first terminal located at a construction location, wherein the assistance message is used to indicate the target workpiece absent in a maintenance operation; planning (S102) a flight path for a transport task according to the construction location and the storage location; and controlling (S103) a drone to transport the target workpiece to the construction location according to the flight path.