Storage Facility Management for Flight Device Safety

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Solution Overview

Problem

The existing flight management device may mistakenly issue takeoff or landing instructions for flight devices that are unable to perform these operations due to unsafe conditions at storage sheds, posing safety risks.

Innovation Solution

A storage facilities management device that receives instruction information from a flight management device, acquires circumferential information about the storage shed, determines the flight device's ability to take off or land based on this information, and transmits this determination to the flight management device, ensuring safe operations by identifying suitable storage sheds and managing door operations.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If the flight management device issues operation instructions based on registered jobs and performance information, then the flight device can be moved to job-start and job-finished positions, but the flight management device may mistakenly give operation instructions for takeoff or landing when the flight device cannot perform these operations due to unsafe conditions at storage sheds

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveoperation efficiencyVSAvoidsafety of flight device
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

A storage facilities management device is introduced as an intermediary between the flight management device and the storage sheds. This intermediary acquires circumferential information about storage sheds, determines whether the flight device can safely take off or land at each storage shed, and provides this determination to the flight management device, thereby preventing unsafe operations while maintaining operational efficiency

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The storage facilities management device performs preliminary actions by acquiring circumferential information about storage sheds and determining takeoff/landing feasibility before the flight management device issues operation instructions. This advance preparation ensures that safety checks are completed beforehand, preventing mistaken operation instructions

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Loss of time

If the flight management device operates without checking storage shed conditions, then operation instructions can be issued quickly, but the device may issue instructions for unsafe takeoff or landing operations

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinstruction issuance timeVSAvoidsafety verification
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of timeVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The storage facilities management device performs safety determinations in advance by acquiring circumferential information and evaluating takeoff/landing feasibility before the flight management device needs to issue instructions. This preliminary safety verification eliminates the need for time-consuming checks at the moment of instruction issuance

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The storage facilities management device provides feedback to the flight management device about the safety status of each storage shed. This feedback mechanism allows the flight management device to quickly determine which storage sheds are suitable for takeoff or landing without performing its own safety checks, thus maintaining fast operation while ensuring safety

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS11887489B2Storage facility management device
Publication Date: 2024.01.30 KDDI CORP
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AI summary

A storage facilities management device is configured to manage storage facilities such as storage sheds for keeping flight devices. Upon receiving instruction information including a takeoff/landing time of a flight device from a flight management device, the storage facilities management device acquires circumferential information representing circumstances of a storage shed before the takeoff/landing time so as to determine whether or not the flight device is able to take off at the takeoff time of the instruction information or to determine whether or not the flight device is able to land at the landing time of the instruction information according to the circumferential information, thus transmitting the determination result to the flight management device and allowing for takeoff or landing of the flight device according to the instruction information.