Rakuten Group, Inc.

Takayoshi Inuma

Toshiaki Tazume

Daiki Tanaka

Kenichi Lee

Takumi Yamato

Osamu Igarashi

Kyota Yamaoka

An unmanned aerial vehicle executes: a movement control process that moves the unmanned aerial vehicle to a delivery area including a delivery address to which a package is to be delivered, the delivery area including delivery destination candidates, and each of the delivery destination candidates including an identification information indicator located at a position where the identification information indicator is readable from outside; an identification information acquiring process that acquires identification information associated with each delivery destination candidate by reading a corresponding identification information indicator; a delivery destination identifying process that identifies, as a delivery destination, a delivery destination candidate in which the acquired identification information matches the delivery address; a position identifying process that identifies a receiving position of the package based on a position of the identified delivery destination; and a placing process that places the package at the identified receiving position.

Unmanned aerial device, information processing method, and computer-readable medium that records control program

A logistics system includes an energy remaining amount identifying unit configured to obtain or estimate an energy remaining amount of an unmanned vehicle subsequent to delivery of an item to a delivery address, the unmanned vehicle being driven by energy supplied from an energy source, a range setting unit configured to set a pickup possible range according to the energy remaining amount, the pickup possible range being used to select pickup location candidates where the unmanned vehicle is able to pick up an item and return to a station of the unmanned vehicle on a return path, the return path including the delivery address as a start point and including the station as an end point, and a pickup location determining unit configured to determine a pickup location from the pickup location candidates located in the pickup possible range.

Logistics system, logistics management method, and computer-readable medium that stores logistics management program

A control system acquires predicted tsunami information, and generates a flight plan for unmanned aerial vehicles. The flight plan includes flight paths along safety boundaries between an expected damage area and a safe area. The expected damage is an area expected to be damaged by the tsunami indicated by the predicted tsunami information. The safe area is an area to be safe from damage caused by the tsunami. The control system transmits the flight plan to the unmanned aerial vehicles.

Control system, control method, and information storage medium for unmanned aerial vehicle

Information processing system S acquires sensing data obtained through sensing downward from the sky by an UAVflying in a specific zone, and identifies flood-damaged area where flood damage has occurred in the specific zone on the basis of the acquired sensing data.

Information processing system, information processing device, and information processing method for identification of a flood-damaged area

An unmanned aerial vehicle according to an aspect of the present invention includes: an aerial vehicle body capable of flying; a winding machine provided to the aerial vehicle body and capable of winding and unwinding a linear member an end of which is connectable to a delivery target; and a fall prevention mechanism provided to the aerial vehicle body and capable of holding the delivery target disconnected from the linear member.

Unmanned aerial vehicle, aerial vehicle control system and transportation method

A gripping mechanism is attached to a mobile body to grip and convey a transportation article. The gripping mechanism includes a pinion provided to be rotatable about a rotation axis, and a first arm and a second arm disposed with the rotation axis being the center to be separated from the rotation axis by the same distance to grip the transportation article. When the pinion rotates in a predetermined direction, the first arm and the second arm move toward the rotation axis.

Gripping mechanism and transportation article conveyance device

The information processing device acquires load information of a load to be transported by UGV; acquires environmental information obtained by sensing an environment around the UGV by a sensor mounted on the UGV at a transport destination of the load; and determines a place where the load is placed by the UGV at the transport destination on the basis of the load information and the environmental information.

Information processing device, information processing method, and unmanned vehicle

An unmanned aerial device according to an aspect of the present invention includes an aerial device body capable of flying in an unmanned manner, and a load-lowering device mounted to the aerial device body and configured to lower a load from the aerial device body. The load-lowering device has a linear member holder for holding a linear member having one end portion connectable to the load, the linear member holder holding at least the other end portion of the linear member, and a speed limiting mechanism that limits a speed at which the linear member is pulled out of the linear member holder, under a weight of the load.

Unmanned aerial device, load-lowering device, and load transport method

An UGVacquires a moving image of an captured imaging area, detects a receiver of an article on the basis of frame images forming the moving image, sets, as the monitoring area, an area including at least a part of the receiver and the area at a point in time when the receiver appears, detects a outsider entering the monitoring area or a outsider heading for the monitoring area on the basis of a frame image that is temporally later than a first frame image at the point in time when the receiver appears, and executes processing for notifying the receiver of outsider detection information.

Monitoring system and unmanned ground vehicle

A control device () includes an acquirer () that acquires information expressing weather related to a port that is a location at which a landing of an aircraft is scheduled, and a controller () that causes an alerter to perform a behavior corresponding to the weather expressed in the acquired information. The alerter performs an alert related to the landing of the aircraft.

Control device, alert system, and method

A protective member configured as a protective member that is mountable to an aerial vehicle having a body and at least one rotor held on the body, and includes a plurality of support members that are connectable to the aerial vehicle and have a flexible member stretched between distal end portions thereof so as to surround an outside of the body in planar view, wherein at least one of the plurality of support members has a tension adjusting mechanism that is capable of adjusting a tension applied to the flexible member in a stretching direction, by changing a distance from a center of the body to the distal end portion.

Flight equipment, aerial vehicle and protective member

Flight equipment according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: an aerial vehicle having a body and at least one rotor held on the body; a plurality of supporters mounted to the aerial vehicle and supporting a protective member stretched therebetween so as to surround an outside of the body; a support information detection unit configured to detect support information indicating a support state of the protective member; and a mounting state determiner configured to determine whether the support state of the protective member is suitable or unsuitable, based on a value detected by the support information detection unit.

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Tokyo, Japan

Takayoshi Inuma