Alpine Electronics, Inc.

Yosuke Tate

Kenichiro Fujita

Shigeo Aoyagi

A multi-copter on which a camera with a distance to a focal plane where the camera is in focus fixed at d is mounted detects a position of an inspection overhead line when moving to an image capture start point above the inspection overhead line, and moves to a shooting end point immediately above the inspection overhead line while capturing images of the inspection overhead line at the lower side using the camera while keeping an altitude difference d with the inspection overhead line.

Overhead line image capturing system and overhead line image capturing method

An unmanned aerial vehicle includes an imaging camera configured to capture the image of an object to be inspected, an object detecting unit configured to detect a relative position of the object to be inspected, a camera angle adjusting unit configured to control the angle of an image capturing direction of the imaging camera on the basis of the relative position detected by the object detecting unit, a determination unit configured to determine whether the image of the object to be inspected is moved out of a video frame of the imaging camera during an image capture operation performed by the imaging camera, and a storage unit configured to store image capture failure information including the result of determination if the determination unit determines that the image of the object is moved out of the video frame.

Unmanned aerial vehicle, inspection method, and storage medium

When an unmanned aerial vehicle flies in accordance with a planned route that is set in advance on the basis of a position of a GPS receiver measured by a measurement unit and the measurement accuracy detected by a measurement accuracy detection unit has decreased to be less than a predetermined value, a flight control unit performs control so that the unmanned aerial vehicle flies along a route different from the planned route. Moreover, when flying along the planned route lowers the measurement accuracy, the unmanned aerial vehicle is caused to fly along the route different from the planned route. Therefore, the flight can be continued while the position is measured with the measurement accuracy secured.

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Iwaki, Japan

Yosuke Tate