Unmanned aerial vehicle

Abstract

An unmanned aerial vehicle comprises: an antenna for communicating with a piloting apparatus that pilots the aerial vehicle; an acquisition unit that acquires a position of the aerial vehicle where the acquisition unit acquires a flight starting position of the aerial vehicle; a storage unit that stores the flight starting position; a direction determination unit that uses calculation to determine, on the basis of the present position and the flight starting position of the aerial vehicle where the positions were acquired by the acquisition unit, a direction of the flight starting position from the present position of the aerial vehicle; and an antenna control device that controls an orientation of the antenna, the antenna control device changing the orientation of the antenna from the present position of the aerial vehicle to the direction of the flight starting position where the direction was determined by the direction determination unit.

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