ARTICLE DELIVERY SYSTEM AND ARTICLE DELIVERY METHOD

• Main Authors: NAKAMURA MASAHIRO, SAKURADA TAKEHIRO, KASUYA JUNICHI, WATANABE REN
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 14.03.2023
• Subjects: AEROPLANES; AIRCRAFT; ARRANGEMENTS OR MOUNTING OF POWER PLANTS OR PROPULSIONTRANSMISSIONS IN AIRCRAFT; AVIATION; CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COSMONAUTICS; COUNTING; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; EQUIPMENT FOR FITTING IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; FLYING SUITS; HELICOPTERS; PARACHUTES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; TRANSPORTING

To receive an article delivered by a drone based on a receiver's intention.SOLUTION: Provided is an article delivery system 1 including a drone 10 that delivers an article and an article delivery control device 50, comprises: a communication control unit 69 that transmits a delivery code of the article to a terminal device 70 having accepted an order of delivery of the article; a radiation control unit 25 that radiates light with the delivery code superimposed thereon from the drone when the drone 10 reaches a delivery destination; a drone control unit that in a case where the delivery code which the terminal device 70 has acquired by transmission from the communication control unit 69 and the delivery code acquired by receiving the light radiated from the drone 10 coincide with each other, permits the terminal device 70 to perform a release operation of the article by the drone 10, and instructs the drone 10 to release the article based on information indicating release of the article from the terminal device 70; and a release control unit that in a case where the information indicating the instruction to release the article is received, exerts control to perform the release operation of the article.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1 【課題】ドローンによって配送される物品を、受け取り側の意思に基づいて受け取ること。【解決手段】物品配送システム１は、物品を配送するドローン１０と、物品配送制御装置５０とを含み、物品の配送を受注した端末装置７０に対して物品の配送コードを送信する通信制御部６９と、ドローン１０が配送目的地に到達したときに、配送コードを重畳させた光をドローンから照射させる照射制御部２５と、端末装置７０が通信制御部２９によって送信されることで取得した配送コードと、ドローン１０から照射された光を受光して取得した配送コードとが一致する場合、端末装置７０にドローン１０による物品のリリース操作を許可し、端末装置７０からの物品のリリースを示す情報に基づき、ドローン１０に物品のリリースを指示するドローン制御部と、物品のリリース指示を示す情報を受信した場合、物品のリリース操作を行うよう制御するリリース制御部とを備える。【選択図】図１