TY - GEN
T1 - Toward enabling a hundred drones to land in a minute
AU - Fujikura, Daiki
AU - Tadakuma, Kenjiro
AU - Watanabe, Masahiro
AU - Okada, Yoshito
AU - Ohno, Kazunori
AU - Tadokoro, Satoshi
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 IEEE.
PY - 2020/10/24
Y1 - 2020/10/24
N2 - Currently, drone research and development has received significant attention worldwide. Particularly, delivery services employ drones as it is a viable method to improve delivery efficiency by using a several unmanned drones. Research has been conducted to realize complete automation of drone control for such services. However, regarding the takeoff and landing port of the drones, conventional methods have focused on the landing operation of a single drone, and the continuous landing of multiple drones has not been realized. To address this issue, we propose a completely novel port system, "EAGLES Port, "that allows several drones to continuously land and takeoff in a short time. Experiments verified that the landing time efficiency of the proposed port is ideally 7.5 times higher than that of conventional vertical landing systems. Moreover, the system can tolerate 270 mm of horizontal positional error, ±30° of angular error in the drone's approach (±40° with the proposed gate mechanism), and up to 1.9 m/s of drone's approach speed. This technology significantly contributes to the scalability of drone usage. Therefore, it is critical for the development of a future drone port for the landing of automated drone swarms.
AB - Currently, drone research and development has received significant attention worldwide. Particularly, delivery services employ drones as it is a viable method to improve delivery efficiency by using a several unmanned drones. Research has been conducted to realize complete automation of drone control for such services. However, regarding the takeoff and landing port of the drones, conventional methods have focused on the landing operation of a single drone, and the continuous landing of multiple drones has not been realized. To address this issue, we propose a completely novel port system, "EAGLES Port, "that allows several drones to continuously land and takeoff in a short time. Experiments verified that the landing time efficiency of the proposed port is ideally 7.5 times higher than that of conventional vertical landing systems. Moreover, the system can tolerate 270 mm of horizontal positional error, ±30° of angular error in the drone's approach (±40° with the proposed gate mechanism), and up to 1.9 m/s of drone's approach speed. This technology significantly contributes to the scalability of drone usage. Therefore, it is critical for the development of a future drone port for the landing of automated drone swarms.
KW - Aerial Systems: Applications
KW - Aerial Systems: Mechanics and Control
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U2 - 10.1109/IROS45743.2020.9341360
DO - 10.1109/IROS45743.2020.9341360
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85102405254
T3 - IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
SP - 1238
EP - 1245
BT - 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2020
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2020
Y2 - 24 October 2020 through 24 January 2021
ER -