VFR (Chiyoda District, Tokyo), ACSL, Sensinlobotiks (Shibuya District, Tokyo) and SUNDRED have jointly developed the "UAV Port", which can realize the automatic take-off and landing and charging of flying robots (drones). It will be launched this year and strive to sell more than 100 in China in 2023. In the social installation of UAV, the port of UAV as a "base" is indispensable. Hope to achieve real unmanned shipping and accelerate the drone business. (editorial member Takeshi Shimada)
"although it is a self-flying drone, it actually requires a number of staff to go to the scene to make all kinds of preparations." VFR President Hiroichiro Yuto will explain the actual situation of the use of drones.
In addition to the time required for preparation, infrastructure maintenance and isolated island transportation in deep mountains require considerable labor just to go to the local area. With the drone port, it can be completed in a single operation, and it is possible for automatic operations and unmanned operations such as "home diagnosis and treatment medicine delivered by drones".
Outside the port is an environmentally resistant bunker structure that is resistant to snow and direct summer sunlight, and the UAV takes off and lands automatically through the opening and closing of the bunker. The landing floor has a charging mechanism to replenish drones with reduced power. This makes it possible to extend flight time.
The size of the bunker is 4125 mm wide x 1650 mm deep x 1180 mm high, and the rated voltage is AC100 volts. Night shipping can also be supported through light-emitting diode (LED) lighting, and the UAV fuselage supports ACSL's "PF2". In the future, it will also be expanded to other organisms such as the company's "Heaven".
Factory inspection of drone ports is considered to be a "shared business" used jointly by police and fire stations in emergency situations (executive director of Yoshii Taro Sen Robot). According to the bridge inspection of the autonomous body and the factory inspection of petrochemical joint enterprises, the solar panel inspection of power companies is used as big data (a large amount of data) accumulation, fault prediction and other new undertakings.
On the other hand, if the drone port is abused, it can also be used for espionage and military purposes such as hijacking drones and data, and security guarantee is indispensable. "it is precisely because of this that domestic production is meaningful." President Satoshi Jiutani of ACSL stressed. Semiconductor parts and other components are also all domestic, coronal disaster and logistics chaos of foreign-made parts Japan also did not affect.
It is also expected that overseas drone ports will be developed in the future to surround drones and drone manufacturers. What Japan, which is leading now, needs is a partner. The more partners there are, the more effective and available the UAV ports will be. 22 years will be the year of his efforts.
February 15, 2022