Presentation 2022-07-13
Evaluation of Migratory Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Systemfor Automation Inspection of Infrastructure
Hideya So,
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Abstract(in English) Many infrastructures such as bridges and communication towers were constructed more than 30 years ago, and their inspection work is significant for disaster prevention and mitigation. Since the number of inspectors has been decreasing, it is difficult for regular inspection. Infrastructure inspections using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been introduced and are expected to improve inspection efficiency significantly. However, infrastructures are located in various places, and the cost of dispatching pilots and UAVs to each infrastructure is a problem. This report proposes a migratory UAV (MiUAV) system in which a UAV automatically travels to infrastructure and conducts inspections. The MiUAV system consists of multiple ports that can accommodate and charge UAVs, and the UAVs can travel to remote infrastructure by flying between the ports. Assuming an environment in which multiple UAVs move simultaneously, setting up a route through a port with high utilization or a bad weather area will increase the travel time to the destination. The proposed scheme uses weights that consider port utilization ratio and inclement weather probability and autonomously set a route to the destination for each UAV using the Dijkstra method. Computer simulations evaluate that the proposed scheme can reduce the travel time by avoiding high-utilization ports and bad weather areas.
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Keyword(in English) UAV / infrastructure inspection / automatic pilot / Dijkstra’s algorithm
Paper # SeMI2022-27
Date of Issue 2022-07-06 (SeMI)

Conference Information
Committee NS / SR / RCS / SeMI / RCC
Conference Date 2022/7/13(3days)
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Place (in English) The Kanazawa Theatre + Online
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Topics (in English) Distributed Wireless Network, M2M (Machine-to-Machine),D2D (Device-to-Device),IoT(Internet of Things), etc
Chair Tetsuya Oishi(NTT) / Suguru Kameda(Hiroshima Univ.) / Kenichi Higuchi(Tokyo Univ. of Science) / Koji Yamamoto(Kyoto Univ.) / Shunichi Azuma(Nagoya Univ.)
Vice Chair Takumi Miyoshi(Shibaura Insti of Tech.) / Osamu Takyu(Shinshu Univ.) / Kentaro Ishidu(NICT) / Kazuto Yano(ATR) / Tomoya Tandai(Toshiba) / Fumihide Kojima(NICT) / Osamu Muta(Kyushu Univ.) / Kazuya Monden(Hitachi) / Yasunori Owada(NICT) / Shunsuke Saruwatari(Osaka Univ.) / Shunichi Azuma(Hokkaido Univ.) / Koji Ishii(Kagawa Univ.)
Secretary Takumi Miyoshi(NTT) / Osamu Takyu(Kogakuin Univ.) / Kentaro Ishidu(Mie Univ.) / Kazuto Yano(Tokai Univ.) / Tomoya Tandai(NTT) / Fumihide Kojima(Panasonic) / Osamu Muta(Univ. of Electro-Comm) / Kazuya Monden(Sharp) / Yasunori Owada(NTT DOCOMO) / Shunsuke Saruwatari(Tokyo Univ. of Agri. and Tech.) / Shunichi Azuma(Osaka Univ.) / Koji Ishii(CRIEPI)
Assistant Kotaro Mihara(NTT) / Taichi Ohtsuji(NEC) / WANG Xiaoyan(Ibaraki Univ.) / Akemi Tanaka(MathWorks) / Katsuya Suto(Univ. of Electro-Comm) / Manabu Sakai(Mitsubishi Electric) / Masashi Iwabuchi(NTT) / Tatsuki Okuyama(NTT DOCOMO) / Issei Kanno(KDDI Research) / Yuyuan Chang(Tokyo Inst. of Tech) / Yuki Matsuda(NAIST) / Akihito Taya(Aoyama Gakuin Univ.) / Takeshi Hirai(Osaka Univ.) / SHAN LIN(NICT) / Ryosuke Adachi(Yamaguchi Univ.)

Paper Information
Registration To Technical Committee on Network Systems / Technical Committee on Smart Radio / Technical Committee on Radio Communication Systems / Technical Committee on Sensor Network and Mobile Intelligence / Technical Committee on Reliable Communication and Control
Language JPN
Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Sub Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Title (in English) Evaluation of Migratory Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Systemfor Automation Inspection of Infrastructure
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) UAV
Keyword(2) infrastructure inspection
Keyword(3) automatic pilot
Keyword(4) Dijkstra’s algorithm
1st Author's Name Hideya So
1st Author's Affiliation Shonan Institute of Technology(SIT)
Date 2022-07-13
Paper # SeMI2022-27
Volume (vol) vol.122
Number (no) SeMI-108
Page pp.pp.40-45(SeMI),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2022-07-06 (SeMI)