Provided is a crewless aircraft capable of accurately estimating its own position even inside a manhole, as well as a crewless aircraft control method. A crewless aircraft according to the present invention is a crewless aircraft used to inspect an interior of a manhole, and includes: a camera sensor that captures an image of a manhole opening; a plurality of rangefinders that measure a distance to a ground surface or a predetermined surface in the interior; and a control unit that estimates an own position on the basis of recognition information of the manhole opening obtained by performing recognition on image information obtained from the camera sensor, and distance information of the distance to the ground surface or the predetermined surface obtained from the rangefinders.
UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR
2024-03-14
Patent
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
IPC: | B64U |
UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE, UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE BODY, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR
Europäisches Patentamt | 2016
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