Presentation 2023-03-16
Drone flight experiment using RTK positioning
Naoki Yamada, Takefumi Hiraguri, Hiroyuki Shimizu, Tomotaka Kimura, Tomohito Shimada, Akane Shibasaki, Yoshihiro takemura,
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Abstract(in English) In recent years, smart agriculture using ICT, IoT, and robotics technology has been attracting attention. In our related works, the pear pollination works technology using drones has being developed. The drones flies in pear fields, finds flowers for pollination, and then sprays pollen with high precision. In order to achieve these tasks, drone flight accuracy by positioning is required. Conventional outdoor drones fly using global navigation satellite system (GNSS), which receives signals from satellites and estimates their own position. However, conventional positioning methods have an error of several meters to tens meters from indicated route. When flying the drones in the pear field, since it needs to fly through narrow spaces between trees with an accuracy into tens centimeters or less, flight control is very difficult. Therefore, in our study, in addition to GNSS position information, real time kinematic (RTK), which performs positioning correction at the ground station, is used to achieve positioning within a few centimeters in the pear field. In this paper, we explain the principle of positioning, and report on the development of a positioning system using RTK and the flight experiment of a drone.
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Keyword(in English) Drones / Positional measurement / RTK-GNSS
Paper # CQ2022-94
Date of Issue 2023-03-08 (CQ)

Conference Information
Committee IMQ / IE / MVE / CQ
Conference Date 2023/3/15(3days)
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Place (in English) Okinawaken Seinenkaikan (Naha-shi)
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Topics (in English) Media of five senses, Multimedia, Media experience, Picture codinge, Image media quality, Network,quality and reliability, etc(AC)
Chair Kenya Uomori(Osaka Univ.) / Kazuya Kodama(NII) / Kiyoshi Kiyokawa(NAIST) / Jun Okamoto(NTT)
Vice Chair Mitsuru Maeda(Canon) / Hiroyuki Bandoh(NTT) / Toshihiko Yamazaki(Univ. of Tokyo) / Sumaru Niida(KDDI Research) / Takefumi Hiraguri(Nippon Inst. of Tech.) / Gou Hasegawa(Tohoku Univ.)
Secretary Mitsuru Maeda(Nagoya Univ.) / Hiroyuki Bandoh(NTT) / Toshihiko Yamazaki(KDDI Research) / Sumaru Niida(Nagoya Inst. of Tech.) / Takefumi Hiraguri(NAIST) / Gou Hasegawa(DNP)
Assistant Masato Tsukada(Univ. of Tsukuba) / Takashi Yamazoe(Seikei Univ.) / Shunsuke Iwamura(NHK) / Shinobu Kudo(NTT) / Hidehiko Shishido(Univ. of Tsukuba) / Atsushi Nakazawa(Kyoto Univ.) / Naoya Tojo(KDDI Research) / Naoki Hagiyama(NTT) / Kimiko Kawashima(NTT) / Ryo Nakamura(Fukuoka Univ.) / Toshiro Nakahira(NTT) / Kenta Tsukatsune(Okayama Univ. of Science)

Paper Information
Registration To Technical Committee on Image Media Quality / Technical Committee on Image Engineering / Technical Committee on Media Experience and Virtual Environment / Technical Committee on Communication Quality
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Drone flight experiment using RTK positioning
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) Drones
Keyword(2) Positional measurement
Keyword(3) RTK-GNSS
1st Author's Name Naoki Yamada
1st Author's Affiliation Nippon Institute Of Technology(NIT)
2nd Author's Name Takefumi Hiraguri
2nd Author's Affiliation Nippon Institute Of Technology(NIT)
3rd Author's Name Hiroyuki Shimizu
3rd Author's Affiliation Nippon Institute Of Technology(NIT)
4th Author's Name Tomotaka Kimura
4th Author's Affiliation Doushisha University(Doshisha Univ..)
5th Author's Name Tomohito Shimada
5th Author's Affiliation Saitama Agricultural Technology Research Center(SATRC)
6th Author's Name Akane Shibasaki
6th Author's Affiliation Saitama Agricultural Technology Research Center(SATRC)
7th Author's Name Yoshihiro takemura
7th Author's Affiliation Tottori(Tottori Univ.)
Date 2023-03-16
Paper # CQ2022-94
Volume (vol) vol.122
Number (no) CQ-438
Page pp.pp.70-73(CQ),
#Pages 4
Date of Issue 2023-03-08 (CQ)