A flight control apparatus that prevents an unmanned aerial vehicle from deviating from a predetermined flight-permitted area and is able to forcibly restrain it even when abnormality is present in the flight environment and the operation of the respective mechanisms of the vehicle, and an unmanned aerial vehicle equipped with this apparatus. The apparatus includes current position acquiring means for acquiring a flight position of the vehicle, flight-permitted area storing means, and deviation preventing means, wherein it forcibly makes the body unable to fly when: the current position acquiring means has become unable to acquire the position of the body, the flight position of the body is in the vicinity of the boundaries between the flight-permitted area and space external thereto or keeps out of the flight-permitted area for a predetermined time or longer, or the body has moved away a predetermined distance or more from the flight-permitted area.
Flight control apparatus and unmanned aerial vehicle equipped with same
2018-10-23
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
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