UAV Release Place Setting Using Ground Sensor Detection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems face challenges in efficiently setting a suitable release place for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to deliver articles, particularly in disaster scenarios where take-off/landing facilities are unavailable, and conventional methods may fail to find suitable landing spots due to the limitations of aerial sensing.
Innovation Solution
An information processing system that utilizes a user terminal with sensors to gather sensing information, determines suitable release candidates based on application conditions, and sets a release place using a processor to ensure safe landing and delivery, with additional controls for obstacle detection and user guidance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a predetermined information processing device selects a candidate area and causes an unmanned aerial vehicle to fly over and sense the area to search for a release place, then the system can search for suitable landing spots, but the search may be futile if no suitable place exists in the candidate area or may fail to find the place due to the limit of sensing from the sky while flying at a predetermined speed
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of having the UAV search for release places from the sky, the invention inverts the approach by having a sensor on the ground (user terminal) sense the peripheral area including release candidate places, and then transmit this sensing information to the information processing device for determination. This ground-based sensing approach is more reliable and efficient for identifying suitable release places.
2Measurement precision
If conventional aerial sensing methods are used to find release places, then the system can search for landing spots, but the method has limitations in detecting obstacles and determining suitability of release places
Solution Approach 1:
The invention utilizes the user terminal's existing sensor (camera or other sensing device) to sense the peripheral area including release candidate places. The user terminal itself performs the sensing function that would otherwise require a separate sensing system, thereby improving measurement precision without significantly increasing device complexity. The sensor captures images or data that are then processed by the information processing device to determine obstacle presence and release place suitability.
Data Source
AI summary
The article transportation system S acquires first sensing information obtained by sensing a peripheral area around a user including a release candidate place with an optical sensor 23 of a user terminal 2 and the position information of the user terminal 2. Then, the article transportation system S determines whether the release candidate place satisfies one or more application conditions on the basis of the first sensing information, and in a case where it is determined that the release candidate place satisfies the one or more application conditions, sets a release place suitable for releasing an article from an UAV 1 on the basis of the release candidate place and the position information of the user terminal 2.