CN114954983A - Shutdown platform, unmanned aerial vehicle base station, and landing method and system of unmanned aerial vehicle - Google Patents
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Abstract
An unmanned aerial vehicle base station, comprising: the system comprises a shell, a shutdown platform and a radio frequency identification antenna; the shutdown platform and the shell are matched to form a relatively closed base station inner cavity, and the radio frequency identification antenna is used for verifying the identity of the unmanned aerial vehicle before the unmanned aerial vehicle lands to a shutdown area of the shutdown platform. The landing method and the landing system of the unmanned aerial vehicle base station are also provided.
Description
Technical Field
The embodiment of the invention belongs to the technical field of unmanned aerial vehicles, and particularly relates to a shutdown platform, an unmanned aerial vehicle base station adopting the shutdown platform, and a corresponding landing method and system of an unmanned aerial vehicle.
Background
The battery endurance of a small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is limited, generally between 10 and 30 minutes, and the UAV can continue flying only after the battery is replaced or recharged after the battery is exhausted every time, so that full-automatic remote operation cannot be performed.
The existing solution for realizing the automatic remote operation of the unmanned aerial vehicle is to configure a charging station for the unmanned aerial vehicle, so that the unmanned aerial vehicle can be automatically charged through the charging station, and then automatically operate according to a pre-planned route after completing the electric quantity replenishment, wherein the electric quantity replenishment mode of the unmanned aerial vehicle mainly comprises battery replacement, contact charging and non-contact charging.
The battery replacement mode requires that a charging station is provided with a robot arm, and meanwhile, the unmanned aerial vehicle can be accurately positioned on a shutdown platform, so that the requirements on software and hardware of the unmanned aerial vehicle and the charging station are high, and the operation fineness and the positioning accuracy are improved by increasing the complexity of equipment;
the non-contact charging mainly refers to wireless charging, the unmanned aerial vehicle keeps hovering during charging, and the existing wireless charging scheme has high requirements on hardware of equipment and low charging efficiency while the unmanned aerial vehicle is required to have higher positioning accuracy;
the contact type charging is realized by adopting a mode that a charging contact of the unmanned aerial vehicle contacts a charging plate, however, the problem that the area of the charging plate is too large due to low positioning precision of the unmanned aerial vehicle exists in the existing contact type charging scheme.
In view of the above, a platform with simple structure and precise positioning is needed for the unmanned aerial vehicle to land.
Disclosure of Invention
In order to solve the above problems, embodiments of the present invention provide a shutdown platform with a simple structure and accurate positioning, and further provide an unmanned aerial vehicle base station using the shutdown platform, and a corresponding method and system for landing an unmanned aerial vehicle.
In one aspect, the present invention provides an unmanned aerial vehicle base station, comprising: the system comprises a shell, a shutdown platform and a radio frequency identification antenna; the shutdown platform and the shell are matched to form a relatively closed base station inner cavity, and the radio frequency identification antenna is used for verifying the identity of the unmanned aerial vehicle before the unmanned aerial vehicle lands to a shutdown area of the shutdown platform.
In another aspect, the invention further provides a landing system of the unmanned aerial vehicle, which comprises the unmanned aerial vehicle and the unmanned aerial vehicle base station.
In another aspect, the present invention further provides a landing method for an unmanned aerial vehicle, including: the unmanned aerial vehicle base station sends base station position information to the unmanned aerial vehicle through the remote control device; the unmanned aerial vehicle flies above a shutdown platform of the unmanned aerial vehicle base station according to the position information; the unmanned aerial vehicle base station carries out identity verification on the unmanned aerial vehicle through a radio frequency identification antenna; after the identity authentication is passed, the unmanned aerial vehicle lands on the shutdown platform.
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Fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of an unmanned aerial vehicle base station according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of an unmanned aerial vehicle landing on a base station according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of a parking area provided in an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 4 is another schematic structural diagram of an UAV base station according to an embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 5 is a flowchart of a landing method of an unmanned aerial vehicle according to an embodiment of the present invention.
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In order to make the technical solutions of the present invention better understood by those skilled in the art, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention are clearly and completely described below. Unless defined otherwise, all technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs. The terminology used in the description of the invention herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the invention.
Reference herein to "an embodiment" means that a particular feature, structure, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment can be included in at least one embodiment of the invention. The appearances of the phrase in various places in the specification are not necessarily all referring to the same embodiment, nor are separate or alternative embodiments mutually exclusive of other embodiments. It is explicitly and implicitly understood by one skilled in the art that the embodiments described herein can be combined with other embodiments.
The embodiment of the invention provides a shutdown platform, which is applied to an unmanned aerial vehicle and comprises a shutdown area, a guide part and a positioning point, wherein the guide part is adjacent to the shutdown area; the guiding part surrounds the shutdown area to limit the size of the shutdown area, and comprises a guiding surface facing the shutdown area and used for enabling the unmanned aerial vehicle to land on the guiding part and slide into the shutdown area along the guiding surface, and meanwhile, the unmanned aerial vehicle is positioned to the positioning point.
The shutdown platform provided by the invention can be used for landing by matching the unmanned aerial vehicle through the guide part, so that the positioning of the unmanned aerial vehicle in a shutdown area is realized, the structure is simple, the accurate landing and positioning of the unmanned aerial vehicle on the shutdown platform can be realized without a high-precision mechanical arm or a positioning navigation module, the equipment cost and the complexity of the shutdown platform are reduced, the precision requirements on the navigation and positioning equipment of the unmanned aerial vehicle are reduced, the universality is high, and the application range is wider.
Based on the shutdown platform, the embodiment of the invention also provides an unmanned aerial vehicle base station, which comprises a shell, a remote control device and the shutdown platform, wherein the shutdown platform and the shell are matched to form a relatively closed base station inner cavity, when the unmanned aerial vehicle needs to land on the shutdown platform, the remote control device sends position information of the base station to the unmanned aerial vehicle, so that the unmanned aerial vehicle flies above the shutdown platform according to the position information, lands on the guide part, slides into the shutdown area along the guide surface of the guide part, and completes positioning at the positioning point.
Based on the unmanned aerial vehicle base station, an embodiment of the invention further provides a landing system of the unmanned aerial vehicle, which comprises the unmanned aerial vehicle and the unmanned aerial vehicle base station, wherein the unmanned aerial vehicle base station comprises a remote control device and a shutdown platform, the unmanned aerial vehicle base station sends position information of the base station to the unmanned aerial vehicle through the remote control device, the unmanned aerial vehicle flies above the shutdown platform according to the position information, further lands on a guide part of the shutdown platform, slides into a shutdown area of the shutdown platform along a guide surface of the guide part, and simultaneously, positioning is completed at positioning points arranged in the shutdown area.
The embodiment of the invention also provides a landing method of the unmanned aerial vehicle, which comprises the following steps:
the unmanned aerial vehicle base station sends base station position information to the unmanned aerial vehicle through the remote control device;
the unmanned aerial vehicle flies above a shutdown platform of the unmanned aerial vehicle base station according to the position information;
the unmanned aerial vehicle lands on the guide part of the shutdown platform, slides into the shutdown area of the shutdown platform along the guide surface of the guide part, and is positioned by the positioning point arranged in the shutdown area.
Some embodiments of the invention are described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Referring to fig. 1 and fig. 2, an unmanned aerial vehicle base station 10 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a housing 100, a remote control device (not shown in the drawings), and a shutdown platform 200, where the housing 100 may be a semi-enclosed structure, and the shutdown platform 200 and the housing 100 cooperate to form a relatively enclosed base station cavity, and in this embodiment, the remote control device may be installed in the base station cavity, or installed separately outside the base station, and connected to the base station by a wire.
Further, shutdown platform 200 includes a shutdown region 210, a guide 220 adjacent to shutdown region 210, and a setpoint 230 disposed within shutdown region 210; the guiding part 220 surrounds the shutdown area 210 to limit the size of the shutdown area 210, the guiding part 220 comprises a guiding surface 221 facing the shutdown area 210, and when the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 needs to land on the shutdown platform 200, the remote control device sends position information of the unmanned aerial vehicle base station 10 to the unmanned aerial vehicle 20, so that the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 can fly above the shutdown platform 200 according to the position information, land on the guiding part 220, slide down into the shutdown area 210 along the guiding surface 221 of the guiding part 220, and complete positioning at the positioning point 230. In some embodiments, the stopping platform 200 may include two or more stopping areas 210, the guiding portion 220 defines the size of the whole stopping area 210, a spacer (not shown) is disposed between adjacent stopping areas 210, and each stopping area 210 is provided with the positioning point 230.
Further, a charging potential 231 is arranged on the positioning point 230, the charging potential 231 is used for electrically contacting with a foot rest of the unmanned aerial vehicle 20, so that the unmanned aerial vehicle base station 10 is electrically connected with the unmanned aerial vehicle 20, and paired metal contacts are arranged on the charging potential 231, wherein the paired metal contacts are respectively connected with different electrodes of a charging power supply.
In other embodiments, the shutdown platform 200 includes positioning points 230 disposed in pairs, a charging point 231 is disposed on the positioning points 230, a metal contact is disposed on the charging point 231, and the metal contacts on the positioning points 230 disposed in pairs are respectively connected to different electrodes of the charging power source, that is, the metal contact on one positioning point 230 is connected to the positive electrode of the charging power source, and the metal contact on the other positioning point 230 is connected to the negative electrode of the charging power source.
Optionally, the metal contacts arranged on the charging station 231 in the foregoing embodiment may include a charging metal contact and a data transmission metal contact, and the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 may also implement wired communication with the base station through the data transmission metal contact while being charged through the charging metal contact, so as to perform different types of data interaction, for example, upgrade a flight control system of the unmanned aerial vehicle 20.
Optionally, a limiting part 232 is further disposed on the positioning point 230, the limiting part 232 can be matched with the bottom of the foot rest of the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 to limit the movement of the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 on the plane, for example, the limiting part 232 is a limiting groove, the foot rest of the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 is provided with a protrusion, when the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 slides down into the parking area 210 along the guide surface 221 when landing on the guide part 220, the charging contact of the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 is positioned to the positioning point 230, and the protrusion at the bottom of the foot rest of the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 is just positioned in the limiting groove, so that the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 cannot translate or rotate in the plane where the parking area 210 is located; because the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 can slide to the shutdown area 210 under the action of the guide part 220 to complete accurate positioning, even if the area of the metal contact on the charging position 231 is small, the foot stool of the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 can accurately contact the metal contact on the charging position 231, so that the electric connection between the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 and the unmanned aerial vehicle base station 10 is realized, and further, the charging of the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 is realized; in a specific embodiment, the charging potential 231 is located in the position-limiting portion 232, and may also be located at one side of the position-limiting portion 232.
In other embodiments, a limit part 232 may be disposed in the parking area 210 adjacent to the locating point 230, and referring to fig. 3, the locating point 230 includes a plurality of charging points 231 circumferentially disposed around the limit part 232, so that when the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 lands on the parking area 210 in different directions, all foot rests of the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 can contact with metal contacts of the charging points 231.
In other embodiments, the positioning point 230 is further provided with a removable cover (not shown), or only the charging position 231 of the positioning point 230 is provided with a removable cover, which is automatically opened when the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 lands or charges and automatically closed after the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 finishes charging or takes off to protect the exposed metal contacts, and the removable cover may be configured in a flip manner or a push-pull manner.
Further, the guiding portion 220 may include a plurality of guiding surfaces 221 facing the parking area 210, and each guiding surface 221 may be a plane or a curved surface inclined with respect to the parking area 210, so as to form a recess above the parking area 210, the recess being configured to receive the unmanned aerial vehicle 20. The shape and size of the parking area 210 are defined by the guiding portion 220 surrounding the parking area 210, for example, the guiding portion 220 of the parking area 210 comprises four first guiding surfaces 2210 with the same shape and size and four second guiding surfaces 2211 with the same shape and size, the four first guiding surfaces 2210 are connected with corresponding edges of the parking area 210, each second guiding surface 2211 in the four second guiding surfaces 2211 is connected between two corresponding adjacent first guiding surfaces 2210, so as to define a rectangular area, namely the parking area 210, and generally, the shape and size of the parking area 210 are matched with the shape and size of a foot stool of the unmanned aerial vehicle 20. In some embodiments, the guide 220 may be a guide plate or a guide table.
Referring back to fig. 2, the unmanned aerial vehicle base station 10 further includes a protective component 300 mounted on the housing 100, specifically, the protective component 300 is located above the shutdown platform 200, and the protective component 300 cooperates with the shutdown area 210 and the guiding portion 220 to form a receiving cavity of the unmanned aerial vehicle 20. The fender assembly 300 is used to fender the docking platform 200 and the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 landed on the docking platform 200. In this embodiment, the protection assembly 300 can realize effects such as dustproof, waterproof, high temperature insolation of preventing, forms the safe environment of depositing of effectively protecting unmanned vehicles 20 when the long-term operation in open air.
Further, referring to fig. 4, the guard assembly 300 includes a driving member 310 and a guard door 320, the driving member 310 drives the guard door 320 to open or close relative to the housing 100, the guard door 320 may be a single-opening or double-opening flat door, or a box-shaped or hemispherical shaped door, and the shaped door may also be configured in a single-opening or double-opening manner; alternatively, a transparent window may be provided on the protective door 320. In other alternatives, the guard assembly 300 further includes a sealing ring disposed on the guard door 320, which may be a rubber ring.
In some embodiments, the driving member 310 may be a jacking cylinder, and a piston rod of the jacking cylinder is fixedly connected to the protective door 320 to drive the protective door 320 to move in a vertical direction, so as to complete the opening and closing of the protective door 320.
In other embodiments, the shield assembly 300 further includes a connecting assembly 330, and the connecting assembly 330 connects the shield door 320 and the housing 100.
As an alternative, referring back to fig. 4, the connection assembly 330 is an external hinge structure, and specifically includes a first connection portion 331, a second connection portion 332, and a rotation shaft 333, where the first connection portion 331 and the second connection portion 332 respectively connect the protective door 320 and the outer surface of the housing 100, the rotation shaft 333 is connected to the driving member 310, and the first connection portion 331 and the second connection portion 332 are rotatably connected through the rotation shaft 333; the connection surfaces of the first connection portion 331 and the second connection portion 332 are large-area connection surfaces, the first connection portion 331 and the second connection portion 332 are respectively fixed on the outer surfaces of the protective door 320 and the housing 100 through screws or rivets, the rotating shaft 333 is fixedly connected with the first connection portion 331, meanwhile, the rotating shaft 333 is installed on a bearing seat arranged on the second connection portion 332 through a bearing, and the rotating shaft 333 is driven to rotate through the driving member 310, so that the first connection portion 331 and the protective door 320 are driven to integrally move, and the protective door 320 is opened and closed; in this embodiment, the shielding assembly 300 includes a plurality of connecting assemblies 330, the rotating shafts 333 of the connecting assemblies 330 are coaxial, and the rotating shaft 333 of one of the connecting assemblies 330 is connected to the driving member 310, in this embodiment, the connecting assemblies 330 are adjustable to ensure the coaxiality of the rotating shafts of the connecting assemblies 330; because coupling assembling 330 adopts the structure of outer hinge, can expand bigger angle, make guard gate 320's the scope of opening and shutting bigger, adopt outer hinge mechanism simultaneously, when guard gate 320 closed, guard gate 320 and casing 100 are totally closed, form the unmanned vehicles 20 of relative sealed and accomodate the chamber, be favorable to dustproof and waterproof etc. simultaneously, first connecting portion 331 and second connecting portion 332 adopt the connection face of large tracts of land, can increase guard gate 320 stability and the anti-wind ability of shocking resistance of side, guarantee that guard gate 320 can open safely and close in strong wind weather.
Alternatively, the connection assembly 330 includes a guide rail (not shown) fixedly connected to one of the protection door 320 and the housing 100, and a sliding seat (not shown) fixedly connected to the other of the protection door 320 and the housing 100, and the driving member 310 is connected to the sliding seat.
Further, in another embodiment, the guiding portion 220 of the previous embodiment includes a plurality of guiding surfaces 221 facing the parking area 210, and a first ventilation portion 2212 is disposed on part or all of the guiding surfaces 221, so that the temperature of the battery of the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 may be increased due to charging or the temperature of the fuselage of the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 may be increased due to operation at a high temperature, and in these cases, when the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 lands on the parking area 210 of the parking platform 200, the air may be supplied through the first ventilation portion 2212 disposed on the guiding surfaces 221 to cool the fuselage of the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 or the battery; in other embodiments, a side of the guiding portion 220 facing away from the parking area 210 is provided with a guiding fan (not shown), and the size of the fan blade of the guiding fan is matched with the size of the first ventilation portion 2212 provided on the guiding surface 221; as an alternative embodiment, the first ventilation part 2212 is a mesh-shaped ventilation opening or a grid-shaped ventilation opening.
Further, the parking area 210 is provided with a second vent part 211, and as an alternative embodiment, the second vent part 211 provided in the parking area 210 includes a plurality of through holes arranged in an orderly manner, and the through holes may be disposed around the positioning point 230. Of course, the second ventilation portion 211 disposed in the parking area 210 may also be a mesh ventilation opening or a grid ventilation opening, and optionally, a guide fan may also be disposed at the back of the parking area 210.
Further, the unmanned aerial vehicle base station 10 is correspondingly provided with a temperature adjusting device (not shown in the figure), the temperature adjusting device may be a fan or an air conditioner, the temperature adjusting device may adjust the temperature inside the base station, when the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 lands on the shutdown platform 200, and the protection door 320 of the protection component 300 disposed above the shutdown platform 200 is closed, the base station inner cavity, the first ventilation portion 2212, the second ventilation portion 211 and the receiving cavity jointly form a circulating air flow channel, under the action of the guiding fan, the cold air blown out by the temperature adjusting device of the unmanned aerial vehicle base station 10 flows in the air flow channel, referring to fig. 1 again, the black hollow arrow in the figure indicates the air flowing direction, specifically, under the action of the guiding fan, the cold air output by the temperature adjusting device enters the receiving cavity from the base station inner cavity through the first ventilation portion 2212, the hot air after cooling the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 returns to the inner cavity of the base station through the second ventilation part 211 from the accommodating cavity and is cooled by the temperature adjusting device, and the temperature of the fuselage or the battery of the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 can be effectively reduced through circulation. Naturally, in a low-temperature environment, warm air may be blown out by the temperature control device of the unmanned aerial vehicle base station 10 to flow through the air flow passage, thereby increasing the fuselage temperature of the unmanned aerial vehicle 20.
In other embodiments, the remote control device includes a radio frequency identification antenna (not shown) disposed below the location point 230 for authenticating the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 to be landed.
Further, unmanned vehicles basic station 10 still is provided with environment monitoring device (not shown in the figure), the environmental data information that environment monitoring device gathered passes through remote control unit transmits to backend server, wherein, environmental data information includes temperature information, humidity information, illumination intensity information, rainfall information, wind speed information etc.. The flight of the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 needs to satisfy certain flight conditions, for example, the temperature range of outdoor work of the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 is-20 ℃ to 45 ℃, the wind speed range of outdoor work is 0m/s to 12m/s, when the temperature or the wind speed and the like exceed the working range, or in rainy weather, the flight of the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 is not facilitated, and therefore by collecting the environmental data information, and judging whether the environmental data information such as temperature information, humidity information, illumination intensity information, rainfall information, wind speed information and the like is in a normal range, if any one exceeds the normal range, if the environmental data information is considered to be abnormal, the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 needs to be controlled to return or the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 stops taking off as soon as possible, the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 is guaranteed to execute a flight task under a proper environmental condition, and safety and reliability of the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 during long-term outdoor storage or work are guaranteed.
Further, the unmanned aerial vehicle base station 10 is further provided with a display device (not shown in the figure) for displaying the state information of the unmanned aerial vehicle base station 10, the environment data information collected by the environment monitoring device and the state information of the unmanned aerial vehicle 20, so that ground staff can maintain the equipment instruments of the base station more conveniently. In other embodiments, for maintenance convenience, the casing 100 is provided with an operation door 110 for debugging the devices inside the casing 100.
Further, the unmanned aerial vehicle base station 10 is further provided with a standby power supply (not shown in the figure), when the external power supply of the unmanned aerial vehicle base station 10 is unstable or interrupted, the unmanned aerial vehicle base station 10 is automatically switched to the standby power supply for supplying power, so that the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 can be continuously connected with the unmanned aerial vehicle base station 10, the operation and the safe return flight can be automatically continuously executed, and the occurrence of accidents or operation interruption caused by the fact that the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 loses remote control information due to unstable or interrupted power supply of the unmanned aerial vehicle base station 10 is prevented; optionally, the standby power supply is a storage battery, and the storage battery may be charged through a solar panel, or may be charged through a power supply outside the unmanned aerial vehicle base station 10; in some embodiments, when the power of the backup power supply falls to a certain range after the unmanned aerial vehicle base station 10 switches to the backup power supply, the unmanned aerial vehicle base station 10 will send a return command to the unmanned aerial vehicle 20, so as to ensure that the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 safely returns and lands on the shutdown platform 200 of the unmanned aerial vehicle base station 10 before the power of the backup power supply is insufficient.
Compared with the existing unmanned aerial vehicle base station 10, the unmanned aerial vehicle base station 10 provided by the embodiment at least has the following advantages:
(1) the shutdown platform 200 of the unmanned aerial vehicle base station 10 is simple in structure, accurate landing and positioning of the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 on the shutdown platform 200 can be achieved without a high-precision mechanical arm or a positioning navigation module, on one hand, the equipment cost and complexity of the shutdown platform 200 are reduced, on the other hand, the precision requirements on the navigation and positioning equipment of the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 are reduced, the universality is high, and the application range is wider;
(2) when the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 lands on the shutdown platform 200, the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 can be automatically charged on the shutdown platform 200, and due to high-precision positioning, the area of the metal contact of the charging position 231 can be very small, so that potential safety hazards caused by large-area exposed metal contacts can be effectively avoided;
(3) when the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 is automatically charged, the battery of the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 can be effectively cooled, and the safety is improved;
(4) when the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 lands on the shutdown platform 200 for storage or charging, the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 is protected by the protection assembly 300, so that the unmanned aerial vehicle can be effectively prevented from water, dust, high-temperature insolation and the like, and the safety and reliability of the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 during outdoor long-term storage are ensured;
(5) by collecting the environmental data information, the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 can be ensured to automatically execute the operation under the appropriate environmental conditions, and the safety of the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 is ensured.
(6) Through setting up backup battery to the basic station, can avoid the basic station to lose the liaison with unmanned vehicles 20 because of under the power unstability or the outage circumstances, guarantee that unmanned vehicles 20 can continuously carry out the operation and return to the journey safely.
Based on the unmanned aerial vehicle base station 10 provided in the above embodiment, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a landing system of an unmanned aerial vehicle, referring back to fig. 2, the landing system of the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 includes an unmanned aerial vehicle 20 and an unmanned aerial vehicle base station 10, the unmanned aerial vehicle base station 10 includes a remote control device and a shutdown platform 200, wherein the unmanned aerial vehicle base station 10 sends position information of the base station to the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 through the remote control device, the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 flies above the shutdown platform 200 according to the position information, further lands on a guide part 220 of the shutdown platform 200, slides into a shutdown area 210 of the shutdown platform 200 along a guide surface 221 of the guide part 220, and at the same time, positioning is completed by a positioning point 230 provided in the shutdown area 210. In this embodiment, an RTK (Real-time kinematic) positioning module is installed on the unmanned aerial vehicle 20, and the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 receives and processes the position information through the RTK positioning module to obtain accurate positioning information.
Further, shutdown platform 200 includes a shutdown region 210, a guide 220 adjacent to shutdown region 210, and a setpoint 230 disposed within shutdown region 210; wherein, the guide part 220 encircles the parking area 210 to limit the size of the parking area 210, the guide part 220 comprises a guide surface 221 facing the parking area 210, when the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 needs to land to the parking platform 200, the remote control device sends the position information of the unmanned aerial vehicle base station 10 to the unmanned aerial vehicle 20, so that the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 flies above the parking platform 200 according to the position information, lands on the guide part 220, slides into the parking area 210 along the guide surface 221 of the guide part 220, and completes positioning at the positioning point 230. When the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 flies above the shutdown platform 200 according to the position information, the projection of the foot rest of the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 on the shutdown platform 200 is located in the area where the guide part 220 is located and/or the shutdown area 210.
In some embodiments, the stopping platform 200 may include two or more stopping areas 210, the guiding portion 220 defines the size of the whole stopping area 210, a spacer (not shown) is disposed between adjacent stopping areas 210, and each stopping area 210 is provided with the positioning point 230.
Further, a charging potential 231 is arranged on the positioning point 230, and after the positioning of the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 is completed at the positioning point 230, the charging potential 231 is in electrical contact with a foot rest of the unmanned aerial vehicle 20, so that the unmanned aerial vehicle base station 10 is electrically connected with the unmanned aerial vehicle 20.
In some embodiments, the charging potential 231 is provided with a pair of metal contacts, wherein the metal contacts provided in pair are respectively connected to different electrodes of a charging power source.
In other embodiments, the shutdown platform 200 includes positioning points 230 disposed in pairs, a charging point 231 is disposed on the positioning points 230, a metal contact is disposed on the charging point 231, and the metal contacts on the positioning points 230 disposed in pairs are respectively connected to different electrodes of the charging power source, that is, the metal contact on one positioning point 230 is connected to the positive electrode of the charging power source, and the metal contact on the other positioning point 230 is connected to the negative electrode of the charging power source.
Optionally, the metal contacts arranged on the charging station 231 in the foregoing embodiment may include a charging metal contact and a data transmission metal contact, and the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 may also implement wired communication with the base station through the data transmission metal contact while being charged through the charging metal contact, so as to perform different types of data interaction, for example, upgrade a flight control system of the unmanned aerial vehicle 20.
Optionally, a limiting part 232 is further disposed on the positioning point 230, the limiting part 232 can be matched with the bottom of the foot rest of the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 to limit the movement of the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 on the plane, for example, the limiting part 232 is a limiting groove, the foot rest of the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 is provided with a protrusion, when the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 slides down into the parking area 210 along the guide surface 221 when landing on the guide part 220, the charging contact of the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 is positioned to the positioning point 230, and the protrusion at the bottom of the foot rest of the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 is just positioned in the limiting groove, so that the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 cannot translate or rotate in the plane where the parking area 210 is located; because the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 can slide down to the parking area 210 under the action of the guide part 220 to complete accurate positioning, even if the area of the metal contact on the charging position 231 is small, the foot rest of the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 can accurately contact the metal contact on the charging position 231, so that point connection between the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 and the unmanned aerial vehicle base station 10 is realized, and further charging of the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 is realized; in a specific embodiment, the charging potential 231 is located in the position-limiting portion 232, and may also be located at one side of the position-limiting portion 232.
In other embodiments, a limiting portion 232 may be disposed in the parking area 210 adjacent to the positioning point 230, and referring to fig. 3, the positioning point 230 includes a plurality of charging points 231 circumferentially disposed around the limiting portion 232, so that when the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 lands on the parking area 210 in different orientations, the foot rests of the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 can contact with the metal contacts of the charging points 231.
In other embodiments, the positioning point 230 is further provided with a removable cover (not shown), or only the charging position 231 of the positioning point 230 is provided with a removable cover, which is automatically opened when the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 lands or charges and automatically closed after the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 finishes charging or takes off to protect the exposed metal contacts, and the removable cover may be configured in a flip manner or a push-pull manner.
In some embodiments, the guiding portion 220 may include a plurality of guiding surfaces 221 facing the parking area 210, and each guiding surface 221 may be a plane or a curved surface inclined with respect to the parking area 210, so as to form a recess above the parking area 210, and the recess is used for accommodating the unmanned aerial vehicle 20. The shape and size of the parking area 210 are defined by the guiding portion 220 surrounding the parking area 210, for example, the guiding portion 220 of the parking area 210 comprises four first guiding surfaces 2210 with the same shape and size and four second guiding surfaces 2211 with the same shape and size, the four first guiding surfaces 2210 are connected with corresponding edges of the parking area 210, each second guiding surface 2211 in the four second guiding surfaces 2211 is connected between two corresponding adjacent first guiding surfaces 2210, so as to define a rectangular area, namely the parking area 210, and generally, the shape and size of the parking area 210 are matched with the shape and size of a foot stool of the unmanned aerial vehicle 20. In some embodiments, the guide 220 may be a guide plate or a guide table.
Further, unmanned vehicles base station 10 still includes protection component 300, protection component 300 is used for protecting shut down platform 200 and the unmanned vehicles 20 that land on shut down platform 200. Wherein, the protective component 300 is located above the shutdown platform 200, and the protective component 300 and the shutdown platform 200 cooperate to form a containing cavity of the unmanned aerial vehicle 20. The fender assembly 300 is used to fender the docking platform 200 and the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 landed on the docking platform 200. In this embodiment, the protection assembly 300 can realize effects such as dustproof, waterproof, high temperature insolation of preventing, forms the safe environment of depositing of effectively protecting unmanned vehicles 20 when the long-term operation in open air.
In some embodiments, the protection assembly 300 includes a driving member 310 and a protection door 320, and the protection assembly 300 opens the protection door 320 through the driving member 310 before the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 is landed on the landing platform 200, and closes the protection door 320 through the driving member 310 after the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 is landed on the landing platform 200. The protective door 320 can be a single-opening or double-opening plane door, and can also be a box-shaped or hemispherical special-shaped door, and the special-shaped door can also be arranged in a single-opening or double-opening mode; alternatively, a transparent window may be provided on the protection door 320. In other alternatives, the guard assembly 300 further includes a sealing ring disposed on the guard door 320, which may be a rubber ring.
In some embodiments, the driving member 310 may be a jacking cylinder, and a piston rod of the jacking cylinder is fixedly connected to the protective door 320 to drive the protective door 320 to move in a vertical direction, so as to complete the opening and closing of the protective door 320.
In other embodiments, the shield assembly 300 further includes a connecting assembly 330, wherein the connecting assembly 330 connects the shield door 320 and the housing 100.
As an alternative, referring back to fig. 4, the connection assembly 330 is an external hinge structure, and specifically includes a first connection portion 331, a second connection portion 332, and a rotation shaft 333, where the first connection portion 331 and the second connection portion 332 respectively connect the protective door 320 and the outer surface of the housing 100, the rotation shaft 333 is connected to the driving member 310, and the first connection portion 331 and the second connection portion 332 are rotatably connected through the rotation shaft 333; the connection surfaces of the first connection portion 331 and the second connection portion 332 are large-area connection surfaces, the first connection portion 331 and the second connection portion 332 are respectively fixed on the outer surfaces of the protective door 320 and the housing 100 through screws or rivets, the rotating shaft 333 is fixedly connected with the first connection portion 331, meanwhile, the rotating shaft 333 is installed on a bearing seat arranged on the second connection portion 332 through a bearing, and the rotating shaft 333 is driven to rotate through the driving member 310, so that the first connection portion 331 and the protective door 320 are driven to integrally move, and the protective door 320 is opened and closed; in this embodiment, the shielding assembly 300 includes a plurality of connecting assemblies 330, the rotating shafts 333 of the connecting assemblies 330 are coaxial, and the rotating shaft 333 of one of the connecting assemblies 330 is connected to the driving member 310, in this embodiment, the connecting assemblies 330 are adjustable to ensure the coaxiality of the rotating shafts of the connecting assemblies 330; because coupling assembling 330 adopts the structure of outer hinge, can expand bigger angle, make guard gate 320 the scope of opening and shutting bigger, adopt outer hinge mechanism simultaneously, when guard gate 320 closed, guard gate 320 and casing 100 are complete closed, form the unmanned vehicles 20 containing chamber of relative seal, be favorable to dustproof and waterproof etc. simultaneously, first connecting portion 331 and second connecting portion 332 adopt the connection face of large tracts of land, can increase guard gate 320 stability and the anti ability of shocking of side anti-wind, guarantee that guard gate 320 can open safely and close at strong wind weather.
Alternatively, the connection assembly 330 includes a guide rail (not shown) fixedly connected to one of the protection door 320 and the housing 100, and a sliding seat (not shown) fixedly connected to the other of the protection door 320 and the housing 100, and the driving member 310 is connected to the sliding seat.
Further, unmanned vehicles base station 10 has installed the radio frequency identification antenna, the radio frequency identification antenna sets up the below of setpoint 230, before unmanned vehicles 20 descend to shut down platform 200, unmanned vehicles base station 10 passes through the radio frequency identification antenna is right unmanned vehicles 20 carries out authentication.
Further, unmanned vehicles basic station 10 still is provided with environment monitoring device, the environmental data information that environment monitoring device gathered passes through remote control unit transmits to backend server, works as backend server judges when environmental data information appears unusually, unmanned vehicles basic station 10 passes through remote control unit to unmanned vehicles 20 sends the command of returning to the journey. Specifically, the environment data information collected by the environment monitoring device is transmitted to the background server through the remote control device, wherein the environment data information includes temperature information, humidity information, illumination intensity information, rainfall information, wind speed information and the like. The flight of the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 needs to satisfy certain flight conditions, for example, the temperature range of outdoor work of the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 is-20 ℃ to 45 ℃, the wind speed range of outdoor work is 0m/s to 12m/s, when the temperature or the wind speed and the like exceed the working range, or in rainy weather, the flight of the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 is not facilitated, and therefore by collecting the environmental data information, and judging whether the environmental data information such as temperature information, humidity information, illumination intensity information, rainfall information, wind speed information and the like is in a normal range, if any one exceeds the normal range, the environmental data information is considered to be abnormal, and at this time, the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 needs to be controlled to return or stop the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 from taking off as soon as possible, so that the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 is ensured to execute a flight task under a proper environmental condition, and the safety and reliability of the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 during long-term outdoor storage or work are ensured.
Further, unmanned vehicles basic station 10 still is provided with temperature regulation apparatus, unmanned vehicles 20 descend to shut down platform 200 after, unmanned vehicles basic station 10 starts temperature regulation apparatus is in order to adjust the inside temperature of basic station. Optionally, when the guiding portion 220 of the unmanned aerial vehicle base station 10 includes a plurality of guiding surfaces 221 facing the parking area 210, and a first ventilation portion 2212 is disposed on part or all of the guiding surfaces 221, the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 may heat up the battery due to charging or heat up the fuselage due to operation at a high temperature, and in these cases, when the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 lands on the parking area 210 of the parking platform 200, the air can be supplied through the first ventilation portion 2212 disposed on the guiding surfaces 221 to cool down the fuselage or the battery of the unmanned aerial vehicle 20; in other embodiments, a side of the guiding portion 220 facing away from the parking area 210 is provided with a guiding fan (not shown), and the size of the fan blade of the guiding fan is matched with the size of the first ventilation portion 2212 provided on the guiding surface 221; as an alternative embodiment, the first ventilation part 2212 is a mesh-shaped ventilation opening or a grid-shaped ventilation opening.
Further, the stopping area 210 is provided with a second vent portion 211, and as an alternative embodiment, the second vent portion 211 provided in the stopping area 210 includes a plurality of through holes arranged in an orderly manner, and the through holes may be arranged around the positioning point 230. Of course, the second ventilation portion 211 disposed in the parking area 210 may also be a mesh ventilation opening or a grid ventilation opening, and optionally, a guide fan may also be disposed at the back of the parking area 210.
When unmanned aerial vehicle 20 lands on shutdown platform 200, and the guard door 320 of guard assembly 300 disposed above shutdown platform 200 is closed, the base station inner cavity, the first ventilating part 2212, the second ventilating part 211 and the accommodating cavity form a circulating air flow channel, under the action of the induced draft fan, the cool air blown out by the temperature adjustment device of the base station 10 of the unmanned aerial vehicle flows in the air flow channel, and referring back to fig. 1, the black hollow arrows in the figure indicate the air flow direction, specifically, under the effect of the guiding fan, cold air output by the temperature adjusting device enters the accommodating cavity from the inner cavity of the base station through the first ventilation part 2212, and hot air after cooling the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 returns to the inner cavity of the base station from the accommodating cavity through the second ventilation part 211 to be cooled by the temperature adjusting device, so that the temperature of the fuselage or the battery of the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 can be effectively reduced through circulation. Naturally, in a low-temperature environment, warm air may be blown out by the temperature control device of the unmanned aerial vehicle base station 10 to flow through the air flow passage, thereby increasing the fuselage temperature of the unmanned aerial vehicle 20.
Based on the unmanned aerial vehicle base station 10 and the landing system of the unmanned aerial vehicle provided in the above embodiments, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a landing method of the unmanned aerial vehicle, and with reference to fig. 5, the method includes:
s101, the unmanned aerial vehicle base station 10 sends base station position information to the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 through a remote control device; optionally, before S101, the unmanned aerial vehicle base station 10 sends a return command to the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 through environmental data information acquired by an environmental monitoring device, and when the environmental data information is abnormal, where the environmental data information includes one or more of the following: temperature information, humidity information, illumination intensity information, rainfall information, and wind speed information.
S102, the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 flies above a shutdown platform 200 of the unmanned aerial vehicle base station 10 according to the position information; specifically, the projection of the foot stool of the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 on the parking platform 200 is located in the area where the guide part 220 is located and/or in the parking area 210.
S103, the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 lands on the guide portion 220 of the shutdown platform 200, slides into the shutdown area 210 of the shutdown platform 200 along the guide surface 221 of the guide portion 220, and completes positioning at the positioning point 230 provided in the shutdown area 210.
Further, before step S102, the method further includes:
the unmanned aerial vehicle base station 10 opens the guard door 320 of the guard assembly 300 located above the shutdown platform 200; correspondingly, after step S103, the uav base station 10 closes the guard doors 320 of the guard assemblies 300 located above the docking platform 200.
Further, after step S103, the method further includes: the unmanned aerial vehicle base station 10 charges the unmanned aerial vehicle 20 through the charging potential 231 set on the positioning point 230.
Further, after step S103, the method further includes: the unmanned aerial vehicle base station 10 starts a temperature regulation device.
The structures and functions of the hardware devices involved in the landing method of the unmanned aerial vehicle provided by the embodiment of the present invention can refer to the related technical contents in the foregoing embodiments, and are not described herein again.
It is to be understood that the above-described embodiments are merely illustrative of some, but not restrictive, of the broad invention, and that the appended drawings illustrate preferred embodiments of the invention without limiting its scope. This invention may be embodied in many different forms and, on the contrary, these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete. Although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various changes in the embodiments and modifications can be made, and equivalents may be substituted for elements thereof. All equivalent structures made by using the contents of the specification and the attached drawings of the invention can be directly or indirectly applied to other related technical fields, and are also within the protection scope of the patent of the invention.
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1. An unmanned aerial vehicle base station, comprising:
the system comprises a shell, a shutdown platform and a radio frequency identification antenna; the shutdown platform and the shell are matched to form a relatively closed base station inner cavity, and the radio frequency identification antenna is used for verifying the identity of the unmanned aerial vehicle before the unmanned aerial vehicle lands to a shutdown area of the shutdown platform.
2. The UAV base station of claim 1, wherein the outage area has a location point disposed therein, and wherein the RFID antenna is disposed below the location point.
3. The unmanned aerial vehicle base station of claim 1, further comprising an environment monitoring device and a remote control device, wherein the environment data information collected by the environment monitoring device is transmitted to the background server through the remote control device.
4. The UAV base station of claim 3, wherein the environment data information includes one or more of: temperature information, humidity information, illumination intensity information, rainfall information, and wind speed information.
5. The UAV base station according to claim 3 or 4, wherein when the background server determines that the environmental data information is abnormal, the UAV base station sends a return command to the UAV through the remote control device.
6. The UAV base station of claim 1 further provided with a temperature regulation device for regulating the temperature inside the base station.
7. The UAV base station of claim 6 wherein a plurality of first vents are provided in the UAV base station facing the outage area, the thermostat blowing air to the UAV via the first vents when the UAV is to be dropped into the outage area.
8. An unmanned aerial vehicle base station according to claim 6 or 7, wherein a second vent is provided in the outage area.
9. The UAV base station of claim 8 wherein a plurality of induced draft fans are further disposed therein, at least some of the induced draft fans being disposed on a side of the first vent portion facing away from the parking area.
10. The UAV base station of any one of claims 6-9 further comprising a guard assembly positioned above the shut-down platform and cooperating with the shut-down platform to form a receiving cavity for the UAV.
11. The UAV base station of claim 10 wherein the base station cavity, the receiving cavity, the first vent and the second vent collectively comprise a circulating air flow path.
12. The UAV base station of claim 11, wherein the cold air from the thermostat enters the receiving cavity from the base station cavity via the first vent to cool the UAV, and the hot air from the base station cavity is returned to the base station cavity via the second vent and cooled by the thermostat.
13. A landing system for an unmanned aerial vehicle, comprising an unmanned aerial vehicle and an unmanned aerial vehicle base station as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 12.
14. A method of landing an unmanned aerial vehicle, comprising:
the unmanned aerial vehicle base station sends base station position information to the unmanned aerial vehicle through the remote control device;
the unmanned aerial vehicle flies above a shutdown platform of the unmanned aerial vehicle base station according to the position information;
the unmanned aerial vehicle base station carries out identity verification on the unmanned aerial vehicle through a radio frequency identification antenna;
after the identity authentication is passed, the unmanned aerial vehicle lands on the shutdown platform.
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