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Granted Patent B2
US 10,810,889 · App. 15/866,966 · Granted Oct 20, 2020

Operating device, operating method, operating system, and operating program

Inventors: Mitsuru Ogawa (Tokyo, JP); Hajime Shinozaki (Tokyo, JP); Nobuyuki Nishita (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATION
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 10,810,889
App. No.
15/866,966
Filed
Jan 10, 2018
Granted
Oct 20, 2020
Kind
B2
Art Unit
3661
USPC
701/120
Abstract

A technique for more reliably capturing a lost unmanned aerial vehicle in tracking the unmanned aerial vehicle by a surveying device is provided. A UAV search area setting part is configured to perform arithmetic operation for searching for an unmanned aerial vehicle having mounted therein a location identifying device using a GNSS. The UAV search area setting part includes a measured location obtaining part that obtains information of a location of the unmanned aerial vehicle, which is measured by a surveying device, a scheduled flight location obtaining part that obtains information of a scheduled flight location of the unmanned aerial vehicle from a flight plan of the unmanned aerial vehicle, and a search area setting part that sets an area for searching for the unmanned aerial vehicle by referring to a difference between the measured location and the scheduled flight location at a specific time.

Claims (26)

1. An operating device configured to perform an arithmetic operation for searching for an unmanned aerial vehicle having mounted therein a location identifying device using a navigation signal from a navigation satellite, the operating device comprising:

a measured location obtaining part that obtains information of a location of the unmanned aerial vehicle, which is measured by a surveying device;

a scheduled flight location obtaining part that obtains information of a scheduled flight location of the unmanned aerial vehicle from a flight plan of the unmanned aerial vehicle;

a search area setting part that sets an area for searching for the unmanned aerial vehicle by referring to a difference between the measured location and the scheduled flight location at a specific time; and

a comparing part,

wherein the measured location represents a measured altitude, and the scheduled flight location represents a scheduled altitude,

wherein a location of the surveying device is preliminarily determined by relative positioning,

wherein the comparing part determines whether a difference between a δUAV and a δTS is a predetermined threshold or less on a condition that a difference between the measured altitude and the scheduled altitude is represented as δUAV and a difference in the altitude direction of the surveying device between the location that is preliminarily determined by relative positioning and a location that is determined by independent positioning at the preliminarily determined location is represented as δTS, and

wherein the area for searching for the unmanned aerial vehicle is set on a basis of the δTS in a case in which the difference between the δUAV and the δTS is determined as being the predetermined threshold or less.

2. An operating method for searching for an unmanned aerial vehicle having mounted therein a location identifying device using a navigation signal from a navigation satellite, the operating method comprising:

obtaining information of a location of the unmanned aerial vehicle, which is measured by a surveying device;

obtaining information of a scheduled flight location of the unmanned aerial vehicle from a flight plan of the unmanned aerial vehicle; and

setting an area for searching for the unmanned aerial vehicle by referring to a difference between the measured location and the scheduled flight location at a specific time,

wherein the measured location represents a measured altitude, and the scheduled flight location represents a scheduled altitude,

wherein a location of the surveying device is preliminarily determined by relative positioning,

wherein whether a difference between a δUAV and a δTS is a predetermined threshold or less is determined on a condition that a difference between the measured altitude and the scheduled altitude is represented as δUAV and a difference in the altitude direction of the surveying device between the location that is preliminarily determined by relative positioning and a location that is determined by independent positioning at the preliminarily determined location is represented as δTS, and

wherein the area for searching for the unmanned aerial vehicle is set on a basis of the δTS in a case in which the difference between the δUAV and the δTS is determined as being the predetermined threshold or less.

3. An operating system configured to perform an arithmetic operation for searching for an unmanned aerial vehicle having mounted therein a location identifying device using a navigation signal from a navigation satellite, the operating system comprising:

a measured location obtaining part that obtains information of a location of the unmanned aerial vehicle, which is measured by a surveying device;

a scheduled flight location obtaining part that obtains information of a scheduled flight location of the unmanned aerial vehicle from a flight plan of the unmanned aerial vehicle;

a search area setting part that sets an area for searching for the unmanned aerial vehicle by referring to a difference between the measured location and the scheduled flight location at a specific time; and

a comparing part,

wherein the measured location represents a measured altitude, and the scheduled flight location represents a scheduled altitude,

wherein a location of the surveying device is preliminarily determined by relative positioning,

wherein the comparing part determines whether a difference between a δUAV and a δTS is a predetermined threshold or less on a condition that a difference between the measured altitude and the scheduled altitude is represented as δUAV and a difference in the altitude direction of the surveying device between the location that is preliminarily determined by relative positioning and a location that is determined by independent positioning at the preliminarily determined location is represented as δTS, and

wherein the area for searching for the unmanned aerial vehicle is set on a basis of the δTS in a case in which the difference between the δUAV and the δTS is determined as being the predetermined threshold or less.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 10, 2018
From: OGAWA, MITSURU; SHINOZAKI, HAJIME; NISHITA, NOBUYUKI
To: TOPCON CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 044586/0522 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2017-002419 · Jan 11, 2017 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20180197421A1 · Jul 12, 2018
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