FAROSTAR, succeeded in demonstration test of automatic control technology to improve drone flight safety -Drone journal

　On February 10, 2022, Farostar said in Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture on February 2 and Fukuyama City, Hiroshima Prefecture on February 2, with the cooperation of ACSL.The "Demonstration Test for Automatic Collision Automatic Control Technology to Enhance Safety" was conducted and announced that it was successful.

　In Yumeshima, the venue of the 2025 Kansai Expo, the issues are to ensure the safety of the air area and the area around the Expo venue (collision avoidance) in realizing the social implementation of flying car transport services.The demonstration test uses a collision prevention automatic control technology developed by Farostar to verify the effectiveness of automatic control to resolve issues to ensure safety.The aim is to imagine the use of flying cars in the remote island areas, and to foster social acceptance by experiencing specific usage as a new transportation means.

　Collision prevention automatic control technology obtains flight information for aircraft and drones and detects the possibility that aircraft will collide based on the data, and can avoid flying cars to a drone that can be avoided.It is an algorithm that is automatically avoided, and when it is determined that the collision has been avoided, it is guided to the next WP.

　The ACSL industrial drone "ACSL-PF2" used for the demonstration test is adopted in various fields, such as logistics, infrastructure inspections, and disasters, and has a lot of achievements for non-assistant visual flight (level 3).It is loaded.By equipping the aircraft with a collision prevention automatic control technology, the safety of drone flights can be enhanced.

　In the demonstration experiment, we conducted an evasion test with virtual drones and ACSL-PF2 actual aircraft.The content is that a drone that simulated the flying car take off the departure location and fly to the designated place by planning flight.During the planning flight, the invasion of virtual drones is performed by instructions from the collision prevention automatic control system.After avoiding, return to the original route and land in the specified location.

　As a result of the demonstration, in the two demonstration tests in Osaka and Fukuyama City, drones during planned flights avoid virtual drones by instructions from the collision prevention automatic control system.After that, he returned to the original planning flight and landed at the specified location.