Patent ID: 11869371
Assignee: RAKUTEN GROUP, INC.
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC B  G

Claim 10:
11. An unmanned aerial vehicle system comprising:
an unmanned aerial vehicle traffic management apparatus; and a takeoff and landing facility management apparatus,
wherein_the unmanned aerial vehicle traffic management apparatus includes:
an information acquisition module configured to acquire position information indicating a flight position of an unmanned aerial vehicle; and
an information management module configured to manage at least the position information indicating the flight position of the unmanned aerial vehicle as information confidential to an outside agent to the unmanned aerial vehicle traffic management apparatus except for a time of emergency,

wherein the unmanned aerial vehicle includes a landing request module configured to request the takeoff and landing facility management apparatus to allow an emergency landing in a case of detecting malfunction,
wherein the takeoff and landing facility management apparatus includes a request transmission module configured to transmit, to the unmanned aerial vehicle traffic management apparatus, a request for information of the unmanned aerial vehicle that asks for the emergency landing,
wherein the unmanned aerial vehicle traffic management apparatus further includes:
a request reception module configured to receive, from the takeoff and landing facility management apparatus, the request for the information of the unmanned aerial vehicle that asks for the emergency landing; and
a transmission control module configured to perform transmission control for aircraft information such that the aircraft information including the position information indicating the flight position of the unmanned aerial vehicle that asks for the emergency landing is provided to the takeoff and landing facility management apparatus in response to the request from the takeoff and landing facility management apparatus in a case where the unmanned aerial vehicle that asks for the emergency landing is in an emergency state, wherein the emergency state is defined as a state of malfunction of a drive system in the unmanned aerial vehicle,

wherein the emergency state is self-diagnosed using input from at least one sensor in the unmanned aerial vehicle, and
wherein the takeoff and landing facility management apparatus further includes:
an information reception module configured to receive the aircraft information provided in response to the request and related to the unmanned aerial vehicle that asks for the emergency landing;
a facility determination module configured to determine, on the basis of the aircraft information of the unmanned aerial vehicle that asks for the emergency landing, a takeoff and landing facility for the emergency landing of the unmanned aerial vehicle that asks for the emergency landing; and
an instruction transmission module configured to transmit, to the unmanned aerial vehicle that asks for the emergency landing, a landing instruction to land at the takeoff and landing facility determined by the facility determination module, and

wherein the program code further includes facility candidate extraction code configured to cause at least one of the at least one processor to extract, from among a plurality of the takeoff and landing facilities, the takeoff and landing facility located within a predetermined range from the flight position of the unmanned aerial vehicle that asks for the emergency landing as a candidate of the takeoff and landing facility for the emergency landing of the unmanned aerial vehicle that asks for the emergency landing.