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US 11,618,595 B2Granted
Flying object takeoff control system
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsNobuhiro Okuno, Kenta Miyahara
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Abstract
A flight controller of a drone calculates a target attitude of the drone on a port based on the result of acquisition by an anemometer. The flight controller of the drone controls each of a plurality of rotors independently, and controls each of the rotors so as to make the drone on the port take a target attitude.
Claims6
A flying object takeoff control system, comprising:
- a flying object including a plurality of rotors;
- a port used for the flying object to take off;
- a wind speed and wind direction acquisition unit configured to acquire wind speed and wind direction around the port;
- a target attitude calculation unit configured to calculate a target attitude of the flying object on the port, based on a result of acquisition by the wind speed and wind direction acquisition unit;
- a rotor control unit configured to
- control each of the rotors independently, and
- control each of the rotors so as to make the flying object on the port take the target attitude;
- a plurality of lock mechanisms configured to lock the flying object to the port;
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- a lock control unit configured to control locking and unlocking of each of the lock mechanisms independently, and configured to cause some of the lock mechanisms to lock while causing some of the remaining lock mechanisms to unlock so as to allow the flying object on the port to take the target attitude, in accordance with the result of acquisition by the wind speed and wind direction acquisition unit, wherein
- while said some of the plurality of lock mechanisms are locked and said some of the remaining lock mechanisms are unlocked to allow the flying object on the port to take the target attitude, the lock control unit unlocks all of the plurality of lock mechanisms in response to detecting the attitude of the flying object coinciding with the target attitude.
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