US 11,755,040 B2
Flight control apparatus and flight control system
Takefumi Yamada, Tokyo (JP); Ken Koumoto, Tokyo (JP); Hidetoshi Ebara, Tokyo (JP); Youhei Oono, Tokyo (JP); Yuichiro Segawa, Tokyo (JP); Yukiko Nakamura, Tokyo (JP); and Shinya Hanano, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to NTT DOCOMO, INC., Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 16/756,018
Filed by NTT DOCOMO, INC., Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Jan. 18, 2019, PCT No. PCT/JP2019/001411
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 14, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/146516, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 1, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-009503 (JP), filed on Jan. 24, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2020/0387180 A1, Dec. 10, 2020
Int. Cl. G05D 1/10 (2006.01); B64C 39/02 (2023.01); B64U 10/13 (2023.01)
CPC G05D 1/1064 (2019.05) [B64C 39/024 (2013.01); B64U 10/13 (2023.01); B64U 2201/10 (2023.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A flight control apparatus comprising:
a processor of a flying object having a first priority of a first flight purpose configured to:
detect, in a predetermined range from the flying object, another flying object;
acquire a second priority of a second flight purpose for the other flying object;
specify a moving direction of the detected other flying object;
judge, based on the specified moving direction, whether or not passing is possible;
determine, based on a relationship between the flying object and the other flying object, content of a passing operation to be performed by the flying object with respect to the other flying object;
control flight of the flying object and perform the passing operation according to the determined content of the passing operation, when judged that the passing is possible and the first priority of a first flight purpose for the flying object is greater than the second priority of the second flight purpose for the other flying object;
determine, based on a relationship between the flying object and the other flying object, a content of an operation for allowing the other flying object to pass the flying object; and
control flight of the flying object and perform the operation of allowing the other flying object to pass according to the determined content of the operation, when judged that the passing is possible and the first priority of a first flight purpose for the flying object is less than the second priority of the second flight purpose for the other flying object.