Indoor Drone Route Management Using Guide Light Path Formation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing drone transport systems cannot form an aerial transport path indoors, requiring manual package delivery between drone ports and destinations, limiting convenience and efficiency in densely populated areas.
Innovation Solution
A management device that receives transport information, determines the feasibility of forming an aerial transport path, and outputs formation information to guide lights to create a navigable path for drones within indoor environments.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If an aerial transport path is formed outdoors using existing drone systems, then drone delivery can be achieved, but the system cannot operate indoors and requires manual package handling between drone ports and destinations
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions the drone transport system from outdoor ground-level operations to indoor aerial operations by utilizing three-dimensional space. Guide lights are installed on ceilings and walls to create visible aerial pathways, enabling drones to navigate indoors without manual intervention.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces guide lights as an intermediary element that mediates between the drone navigation system and the indoor environment. These lights create visible transport paths that guide drones through indoor spaces, eliminating the need for manual package handling while enabling indoor operation.
2Productivity
If manual package handling is used between drone ports and destinations, then the system can operate without indoor transport paths, but convenience and efficiency are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the mechanical system of manual package handling with an automated aerial transport system. Drones carry packages directly to destinations following light-guided paths, substituting human physical labor with autonomous flight technology and optical guidance.
Solution Approach 2:
The drone transport system operates autonomously without requiring manual intervention for package transfer. The system self-manages navigation using guide lights, autonomously delivers packages to destinations, and eliminates the need for human carriers to physically transport packages between locations.
3Reliability
If guide lights are installed to form visible aerial transport paths, then drones can navigate indoors autonomously, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent utilizes variations in light color or illumination patterns to encode navigation information for drones. Guide lights change their optical properties to indicate different path segments, turning instructions, or destination markers, enabling reliable autonomous navigation through visual cues that drones can detect and follow.
Data Source
AI summary
A management device that includes a reception unit that receives transport information relevant to an application for use of an aerial transport path formed indoors, a determination unit that determines whether the aerial transport path can be formed in accordance with the transport information, a reception information output unit that outputs, to a requesting party of the transport information, reception information including a determination result regarding whether the aerial transport path can be formed, a transport path formation unit that generates formation information of the aerial transport path in response to the determination result indicating that the aerial transport path can be formed, and a formation information output unit that outputs the formation information of the aerial transport path to a guide light installed indoors to form the aerial transport path.