FLIGHT ROUTE CREATION DEVICE, AND FLIGHT ROUTE CREATION METHOD

• Main Authors: FUJIWARA NOBORU, KOSEKI MITSUAKI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 19.09.2019
• Subjects: AEROPLANES; AIRCRAFT; ARRANGEMENTS OR MOUNTING OF POWER PLANTS OR PROPULSIONTRANSMISSIONS IN AIRCRAFT; AVIATION; COSMONAUTICS; DESIGNING, MANUFACTURING, ASSEMBLING, CLEANING, MAINTAINING ORREPAIRING AIRCRAFT, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; EQUIPMENT FOR FITTING IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; FLYING SUITS; GROUND OR AIRCRAFT-CARRIER-DECK INSTALLATIONS SPECIALLYADAPTED FOR USE IN CONNECTION WITH AIRCRAFT; GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS; HANDLING, TRANSPORTING, TESTING OR INSPECTING AIRCRAFTCOMPONENTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; HELICOPTERS; MEASURING; MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS; NAVIGATION; PARACHUTES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY; PHYSICS; SIGNALLING; SURVEYING; TESTING; TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS; TRANSPORTING

To quickly and properly create a flight route of an agriculture-purpose autonomous type UAV enabling a state of a farm field to be appropriately grasped.SOLUTION: A farm field DB 104 is configured to store farm field information including information capable of identifying an existing location, shape and area about one or more farm fields. A photographing range identification unit 112 is configured to identify a photographing range upon photographing the farm field from sky using an UAV2 on the basis of a performance of a camera function of the UAV2. An object farm field identification unit 113 is configured to identify an object farm field serving a photographing object on the basis of instruction information from a user and the farm field information stored in the farm field DB 104. A flight route creation unit 115 is configured to create a flight route of the UAV2 in the sky of the object farm field on the basis of the farm field information on the farm field DB about the object farm field identified by the object farm field identification unit 113, and the photographing range identified by the photographing range identification unit 112.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1 【課題】 圃場の状況を適切に把握できるようにする農業用自律型ＵＡＶの飛行経路を、迅速かつ適切に生成する。【解決手段】 圃場ＤＢ１０４は、１以上の圃場についての所在位置、形状、面積を特定可能な情報を含む圃場情報を記憶する。撮影範囲特定部１１２は、ＵＡＶ２のカメラ機能の性能に基づいて、ＵＡＶ２を用いて圃場を上空から撮影する場合の撮影範囲を特定する。対象圃場特定部１１３は、使用者からの指示情報と圃場ＤＢ１０４に記憶されている圃場情報とに基づいて、撮影対象となる対象圃場を特定する。飛行経路生成部１１５は、対象圃場特定部１１３で特定された対象圃場についての圃場ＤＢの圃場情報と、撮影範囲特定部１１２で特定した撮影範囲とに基づいて、対象圃場上空においてのＵＡＶ２の飛行経路を生成する。【選択図】図１