Flight Route Allocation for Vertical Takeoff Landing Vehicles
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Solution Overview
Problem
The challenge is to effectively control mobile bodies capable of vertical takeoff and landing, particularly in scenarios where takeoff and landing ports are closely located, leading to a higher risk of collisions and limited flight route configurations that do not intersect, which restricts desired operations.
Innovation Solution
A mobile body control system comprising a ground monitoring device and a mobile body control device that communicate to allocate flight routes, prohibiting flights in interference spaces without reservations, ensuring safe and efficient takeoff and landing operations by prioritizing reservations and dynamically adjusting flight routes based on real-time conditions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If flight routes are set not intersecting with one another, then collision risk is reduced, but the number of available flight routes is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a reservation time dimension to the flight route allocation system. By adding the temporal dimension (reservation timing), the system allows multiple mobile bodies to use the same spatial flight route at different times, thereby increasing the number of available flight routes without compromising collision safety.
2Productivity
If skyports are located nearby each other for efficient urban transportation, then operational efficiency is improved, but the risk of mobile bodies approaching and colliding increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary reservation of flight routes before mobile bodies actually use them. By establishing reservations in advance, the ground monitoring device can allocate and manage flight routes proactively, ensuring safe separation and coordination even when skyports are closely located, thus maintaining both efficiency and safety.
3Reliability
If flight routes are restricted to non-intersecting paths, then safety is improved, but desired operations cannot be achieved
Solution Approach 1:
The ground monitoring device acts as an intermediary that manages and coordinates flight route reservations. It mediates between multiple mobile bodies seeking to use the same flight routes by allocating time-based reservations, thereby enabling desired operations while maintaining safety through centralized coordination.
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AI summary
The purpose is to provide a mobile body control system that can more appropriately perform control of a mobile body capable of vertical takeoff and landing. Comprised are a ground monitoring device (10), and a mobile body control device (20) that can communicate with the ground monitoring device (10). The mobile body control device (20) controls the flight of mobile bodies (51, 61, 71) that are capable of vertical takeoff and landing. The ground monitoring device (10) allocates flight routes (52, 62, 72) when the mobile bodies (51, 61, 71) do takeoff and landing, and is also characterized in that when there is an interference space (80) between one flight route (62) and another flight route (72), unless the one fight route (62) is reserved, flight is not permitted on that flight route.