The University of Tokyo

Blue Innovation Co., Ltd.

Acsl Ltd.

Christopher Thomas Raabe

Shinji Suzuki

Takeshi Tsuchiya

Takashi Matsuo

Kazuya Sakai

Masayuki Kumada

Tsuyoshi Chiba

Shosuke Inoue

Makoto Shibasaki

Takayuki Kumada

Niklas Bergstrom

Provided is an unmanned aircraft that is used to quickly and accurately specify a target location and operate a specific mechanism having a predetermined function at the target location. An unmanned aircraftrefers to a target location marker patternrepresenting an appearance of a target location markerdisposed to have a predetermined relative position relationship with the target location, detects an image portion corresponding to the target location markerfrom an image obtained by a camerathat obtains the image below the unmanned aircraft, and is guided directly above the target location, based on the image portion, where the specific mechanism is operated.

Unmanned aircraft

There is provided a flight management system for managing a flight plan of flying objects that fly among ports. The flight management system includes a plurality of port management apparatuses and a flight management apparatus that manages a flight plan of a plurality of flying objects that autonomously fly among the ports, in which each of the port management apparatuses includes determination means for determining whether or not landing or takeoff of the flying objects on or from the corresponding port is possible, and possibility information output means for transferring to the flying objects possibility information about the possibility, and the flight management apparatus includes flying object information reception means for receiving flying object information including flying object position information about a position of each of the flying objects, flight plan registration means for registering the flight plan for flying between the port as a start point and the port as a target point, flight plan change means for changing the flight plan based on the received flying object position information or changed another flight plan, and instruction information output means for outputting instruction information for instructing the flying object about the flight plan.

Flight management system

A heavy-weight object such as a motor is installed separately from a movable portion to reduce the weight of the movable portion. The invention includes a support unit, a movable unit to which equipment is attached, and a drive unit interposed between the support unit and the movable unit. The movable unit has a first rotating member rotatably attached to the support unit about a first rotation axis line and a second rotating member rotatably attached to the first rotating member about a second rotation axis line orthogonal to the first rotation axis line. The support unit is provided with paired first brackets positioned so as to sandwich the first rotating member, and these first brackets are each provided with a first shaft configuring the first rotation axis line. The second rotating member is provided with paired second brackets positioned so as to sandwich the first rotating member from a direction orthogonal to the paired first brackets, and the second brackets are each provided with a second shaft configuring the second rotation axis line and causing the first rotating member to rotatably support the second rotating member. The drive unit includes paired motors attached to the support unit and having a rotation axis line parallel to each of the first shafts, an endless belt wound between a pulley and each of the motors, and paired gears respectively attached to the first shaft and the second shaft adjacent to each other as a set and converting rotation about the first rotation axis line into rotation about the second rotation axis line. One of the gears is fastened to the pulley and is rotatably attached to the first rotating member, the other gear is fastened to the second bracket of the second rotating member, and to the first shaft to which the gear is not attached, the pulley provided to this first shaft and the first rotating member are fastened.

Attitude control device

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Tokyo, Japan

Christopher Thomas Raabe