Presentation 2020-03-05
Accuracy evaluation of drone control system using total station
Takayuki Suzuki, Taichi Kumagai, Hiroshi Yoshida,
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Abstract(in English) In the field of agriculture, labor savings are required by utilizing robot technology and information and communication technology to solve labor shortage. In order to survey plants in a sunlight-type plant factory, authors have been investigating a severance method using a drone that flies automatically to take a picture of the growth of the plants. Plant factories are indoor and have limited flight space. In order to survey plants with an automated drone, high-precision automatic flight with an error of 1 m or less is required. Although automatic flight using GNSS positioning technology is mainly used in automatic drone flight, the plant factory is in an indoor environment and radio signals from GNSS satellites might not be received stably, so automatic flight using GNSS positioning technology cannot be applied. In this paper, we propose a drone control system that measure the position of the drone with the automatic tracking total station, send the position from the total station to the control PC, determine the control command for the drone in the control PC, and send the control command to the drone from the control PC to control the drone and verify the flight accuracy by experiments using actual machines.
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Keyword(in English) drone / UAV / Total Station / Automatic flight control
Paper # IN2019-87
Date of Issue 2020-02-27 (IN)

Conference Information
Committee NS / IN
Conference Date 2020/3/5(2days)
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Place (in English) Royal Hotel Okinawa Zanpa-Misaki
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Topics (in English) General
Chair Yoshikatsu Okazaki(NTT) / Takuji Kishida(NTT-AT)
Vice Chair Akihiro Nakao(Univ. of Tokyo) / Kenji Ishida(Hiroshima City Univ.)
Secretary Akihiro Nakao(Osaka Pref Univ.) / Kenji Ishida(NTT)
Assistant Shinya Kawano(NTT)

Paper Information
Registration To Technical Committee on Network Systems / Technical Committee on Information Networks
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Accuracy evaluation of drone control system using total station
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) drone
Keyword(2) UAV
Keyword(3) Total Station
Keyword(4) Automatic flight control
1st Author's Name Takayuki Suzuki
1st Author's Affiliation NEC Corporation(NEC Corporation)
2nd Author's Name Taichi Kumagai
2nd Author's Affiliation NEC Corporation(NEC Corporation)
3rd Author's Name Hiroshi Yoshida
3rd Author's Affiliation NEC Corporation(NEC Corporation)
Date 2020-03-05
Paper # IN2019-87
Volume (vol) vol.119
Number (no) IN-461
Page pp.pp.67-72(IN),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2020-02-27 (IN)