KR20190065703A - Drone servicing system of agriculture and servicing method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to an unmanned aerial vehicle service system for farming and a service method thereof. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the unmanned aerial vehicle service system comprises: an unmanned aerial vehicle to fly in a prescribed area to collect information on the corresponding area or perform a pest control task; a service server to communicate with the unmanned aerial vehicle via a wireless communication network, control the unmanned aerial vehicle, and store information collected by the unmanned aerial vehicle; and a drone base station to maintain and manage the unmanned aerial vehicle and provide a survey of a target area and a ground station service of a navigation satellite. The service server receives a service request of a user through a web service, analyzes the service request to transmit a task to the unmanned aerial vehicle, and supplies collected information and performed task content to a user terminal. According to the present invention, anyone can use an unmanned aerial vehicle such as a drone in farming via a wireless communication network to collect and analyze a variety of information and use collected and analyzed information in farming to maximize farming productivity.

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD [0001] The present invention relates to an agricultural unmanned aerial vehicle service system,

The present invention relates to an agricultural unmanned aerial vehicle service system and a service method thereof, and more particularly, to an agricultural unmanned aerial vehicle service system and a service method thereof for supporting agriculture using an unmanned aerial vehicle such as a drone.

Unmanned aerial vehicles such as a drone have been developed for military use, but recently, they have been widely used for military, business, media, and personal use.

As a result, industries related to drone are growing rapidly, and the most important part is agriculture. However, most of the drones are used in agriculture, and some of them have been introduced into the control work such as spraying of medicines such as pesticides and fertilizers.

At present, the technique of collecting various information through the installation of a camera on the drones, the control of the crops using the advanced image technology, the investigation of the soil, the sowing and the evaluation of the growth have been developed, . However, purchasing and operating the drones that incorporate these various technologies at individual farms is not only costly but also problematic in terms of operation and analysis technology.

Korean Patent Publication No. 10-2017-0058767 (May 27, 2017)

The problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide an agricultural unmanned aerial vehicle service system capable of collecting various information such as control of crops, investigation of soil, seeding and growth, Service method.

The unmanned aerial vehicle service system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes an unmanned aerial vehicle for performing an information collection or control mission for a specific area by flying a predetermined area; A service server that communicates with the unmanned aerial vehicle through a wireless communication network, controls the unmanned air vehicle, and stores information collected from the unmanned air vehicle; And a drones base station that maintains and manages the unmanned aerial vehicle and provides a ground station service of a surveying and navigation satellite in a target area; The service server receives the service request of the user through the web service, analyzes the service request, transmits the mission to the unmanned aerial vehicle, and provides the collected information and the performed mission contents to the user terminal.

At this time, the drones base station may communicate with the unmanned aerial vehicle and the service server, transmit the control signal transmitted from the service server to the unmanned air vehicle, and transmit the signal transmitted from the unmanned air vehicle to the service server .

Here, the unmanned air vehicle includes a sensor unit including at least one of a navigation sensor, an orientation sensor, an altitude sensor, a gyro sensor, a velocity sensor, and a proximity sensor. A photographing unit including at least one type of camera for photographing the area; A memory unit for storing information sensed by the sensor unit and data photographed by the photographing unit; A communication unit for wirelessly communicating with the service server; And a control unit for controlling the sensor unit, the photographing unit, the memory unit, and the communication unit to control the corresponding area according to a control signal received from the service server.

At this time, the camera included in the photographing unit may include at least one of an infrared camera and a multispectral camera.

Also, the service server may include: a web management unit for accessing the user terminal, requesting a service, and providing information to the user terminal; A unmanned aerial vehicle controller for controlling the flight of the unmanned aerial vehicle; An analyzer for analyzing information collected from the unmanned aerial vehicle; And a cloud server unit for reproducing information collected from the unmanned aerial vehicle through cloud computing.

At this time, the unmanned aerial vehicle controller may control the unmanned aerial vehicle by setting the flight mode of the unmanned aerial vehicle as fixed wing or variable wing.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for providing an unmanned aerial vehicle service, comprising the steps of: requesting an unmanned aerial vehicle service from a user terminal to a service server through a wireless communication network;

Transmitting a control command from the service server to the unmanned air vehicle flying through the wireless communication network in order to perform an information gathering or control task for the area requested by the user terminal; Performing an information collection or control task on the application area in the unmanned aerial vehicle; Transmitting information collected from the unmanned aerial vehicle or a result of executing the pollution mission to the service server through a wireless communication network; And analyzing and storing information transmitted to the service server so that the information can be confirmed by the user terminal.

At this time, the command transmitted from the service server to the unmanned aerial vehicle may be transmitted through a drones base station that manages the unmanned aerial vehicle, performs survey of the area, and operates a precision GPS ground station service.

According to the present invention, an unmanned aerial vehicle such as a drone can be used for agriculture by using an unmanned aerial vehicle through a wireless communication network, collecting and analyzing various information, and maximizing agricultural productivity by utilizing collected and analyzed information in agriculture There is an effect that can be done.

1 is a block diagram of an agricultural unmanned aerial vehicle service system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a block diagram illustrating an agricultural unmanned aerial vehicle service system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a diagram illustrating a relationship between an unmanned aerial vehicle and a drones base station according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is a diagram illustrating a service server according to an embodiment of the present invention.
5 is a view for explaining a method of operating an agricultural unmanned aerial vehicle service system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described more specifically with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an agricultural unmanned aerial vehicle service system according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating an agricultural unmanned aerial vehicle service system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

1, an agricultural unmanned aerial vehicle service system 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a service server 110, a user terminal 120, a drones base station 130, and an unmanned aerial vehicle 140 .

The service server 110 is connected to a wireless communication network and controls the unmanned air vehicle 140. In addition, the user terminal 120 receives the request for the unmanned aerial vehicle service from the user terminal 120 through the communication with the user terminal 120, and can collect the traffic and data using the unmanned air vehicle 140 in the area. Therefore, information on the health status, disease status and distribution of crops in the area can be collected, and the soil condition and moisture content of the soil can be analyzed.

In addition, the service server 110 can predict irrigation, crop correction time, and harvest time of the crop in the area. In addition, the unmanned aerial vehicle 140 can be used to control the spraying of medicines, fertilizers, pesticides, and the like on the area. The service server 110 may include a web management unit 112 for receiving communication requests and service requests from the user terminal 120 and may include a flight management unit 114 for controlling the unmanned air vehicle 140 have. In addition, it may include a cloud unit 116 that includes cloud computing technology to manage the collected information. Details of the service server 110 will be described later.

Cloud computing technology is a technology that allows commercialized service providers to provide some of the virtualized computer resources and users can use them remotely over the Internet as a service type to reduce resource ownership and operational costs and improve service levels and business agility .

The user terminal 120 may be any one of a smart phone, a notebook computer, a tablet PC, and a personal computer (PC), and a user may use the user terminal 120 to transmit information collected through the unmanned air vehicle 140 to a service server 110).

The unmanned air vehicle 140 can collect information on an area according to a control command under the control of the service server 110. In this embodiment, the unmanned aerial vehicle 140 may be a drone, and it may be a drone to fly an area where information is collected or to perform a control task, and the region may be photographed by various methods to collect information or carry out a control duty can do. In this embodiment, the unmanned aerial vehicle 140 may be a fixed wing drone or a multi-copter drone. Fixed-wing drones are suitable for collecting information about the area while flying at high speeds over a large area, and variable dragon drills are suitable for collecting precise information about a specific area.

For this purpose, the unmanned aerial vehicle 140 may be equipped with a camera such as an infrared camera and a multispectral camera, a navigation sensor for receiving a navigation satellite signal, an orientation sensor, an altitude sensor, a gyro sensor, a speed sensor and a proximity sensor. In addition, more sensors can be mounted as needed.

A plurality of the drone base stations 130 may be installed at predetermined intervals in an area where the unmanned air vehicle 140 wishes to fly. The drones base station 130 may receive the control signal transmitted from the service server 110 and transmit the received control signal to the unmanned aerial vehicle 140. In this embodiment, the communication between the drones base station 130 and the unmanned aerial vehicle 140 can be performed through wifi, Bluetooth, or the like, and may be communicated through mobile communication such as LTE or 5G. Alternatively, the wireless communication network may be a communication through communication such as a 5G mobile network, which is a broadband mobile communication network.

In addition, as in the mobile communication network, the drones base station 130 may overlap some coverage with the adjacent drones base stations 130 and may perform handover between the drones base station 130 and the drones base station 130, The communication with the air vehicle 140 may not be disconnected. Of course, communication between the plurality of the drones base stations 130 and the unmanned air vehicle 140 may be performed by communication performed at predetermined time intervals as necessary.

The drones base station 130 is provided to maintain and manage the unmanned aerial vehicle 140, and to operate and provide a ground station service of the precise GPS and the like in the area where the drones base station 130 is installed.

The wireless communication network 200 is a communication network for communication between the service server 110, the user terminal 120 and the drones base station 130. In this embodiment, the wireless communication network 200 may be an Internet network or a mobile communication network .

3 is a diagram illustrating a relationship between an unmanned aerial vehicle and a drones base station according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, in this embodiment, the relationship between the unmanned air vehicle 140 and the drones base station 130 and the unmanned aerial vehicle 140 will be described in more detail.

First, the unmanned air vehicle 140 includes a sensor unit 141, a memory unit 143, a photographing unit 145, a communication unit 147, and a control unit 149. The sensor unit 141 may include a navigation sensor, an orientation sensor, an altitude sensor, a gyro sensor, a speed sensor, and a proximity sensor. The navigation sensor is provided for receiving the position from the navigation satellite on the route that the unmanned aerial vehicle 140 is flying. The orientation sensor is provided for sensing the orientation of the flight, and the altitude sensor is provided for sensing the flight altitude of the unmanned aerial vehicle 140. The gyro sensor may be equipped with a three-axis gyro sensor to sense the flight direction of the unmanned air vehicle 140, and a speed sensor may be provided to sense the flying speed of the unmanned air vehicle 140. In addition, the proximity sensor is provided to sense whether the object approaching the unmanned air vehicle 140 or the unmanned air vehicle 140 approaches a structure such as a specific object or a building. For this, the proximity sensor may be a laser-based sensor, but is not limited thereto.

The memory unit 143 is provided to store information photographed by the photographing unit 145 and to store control information and the like received through the communication unit 147. [

The communication unit 147 is provided for communicating with the drones base station 130 and can transmit and receive information sensed by the sensor unit 141 and information photographed by the photographing unit 145 to the drones base station 130. In this embodiment, the communication unit 147 can communicate with a mobile communication network or a communication protocol that can connect to the Internet network, and can communicate with the drone base station 130 by a specific dedicated radio frequency.

The photographing unit 145 may include an infrared camera and a multispectral camera. Infrared cameras can represent different shades or colors depending on the crop growth conditions in the area. Multispectral cameras can quickly recognize crops in areas where they are sick or have droughts, and may include thermal sensation.

In addition, the camera included in the photographing unit 145 may include a filter that can block incoming light as needed.

The control unit 149 controls the flight operation of the unmanned air vehicle 140 and stores data such as the information detected by the sensor unit 141 and the image captured by the photographing unit 145 in the memory unit 143, To the drones base station 130 through the base station controller 147. The control unit 149 may control the flight state of the unmanned aerial vehicle 140 based on information sensed by the sensor unit 141. For example, the proximity sensor may detect an obstacle on a flight orbit, You can switch the direction of the non-direction to avoid the detected obstacle and fly.

Also, the unmanned aerial vehicle 140 can simultaneously receive signals from the plurality of the drones 130, and the communication between the plurality of the drones 130 can be performed through the cellular network, the Internet network, or the mobile communication network. The plurality of Dollars BSs 130 may form a coverage area such as a service area or a cell with a certain radius.

4 is a diagram illustrating a service server according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The service server 110 according to the present embodiment will be described in detail with reference to FIG. In this embodiment, the service server 110 includes a web service portal unit 112a, a web server unit 112b, a web application server unit 112c, a storage unit 112d, an unmanned aerial vehicle control unit 114a, A cloud instance unit 114a, a cloud instance unit 116a, a block storage unit 116b, and an object storage unit 116c.

The web service portal unit 112a can access the user using the user terminal 120 and manage the application for receiving the unmanned aerial vehicle service of the present embodiment. In addition, the web service portal unit 112a manages various information analyzed in the application unit 114b in real time or in the information stored in the cloud server unit 116a through the user terminal 120 in the analysis unit 114b .

The web server unit 112b is provided for processing data requested through the web service portal unit 112a so that the user terminal 120 connected to the web service portal unit 112a can obtain an application or information . In this embodiment, the web server unit 112b is provided for processing static data.

The web application server unit 112c is connected to the storage unit 112d and is provided to exchange data stored in the storage unit 112d or to manipulate data stored in the storage unit 112d using a program. The web application server unit 112c is provided for processing dynamic data.

The storage unit 112d may store data generated through the web server unit 112b or the web application server unit 112c and may store data transmitted through the cloud server unit 116a.

The unmanned aerial vehicle control unit 114a controls the flight of the unmanned air vehicle 140 by instructing the unmanned air vehicle 140 to perform a mission so that the unmanned air vehicle 140 can fly and collect various information. At this time, the unmanned aerial vehicle controller 114a can automatically control the unmanned air vehicle 140 according to a preset control tool, and if necessary, provide a console that the user can manually control through the user terminal 120 It is possible. Of course, an administrator managing the service server 110 can provide a console that can manually control the unmanned aerial vehicle 140.

And the unmanned aerial vehicle controller 114a can set the flight mode of the unmanned air vehicle 140. [ Accordingly, the unmanned aerial vehicle 140 can fly according to the control command transmitted from the unmanned aerial vehicle controller 114a. In this case, it is needless to say that in this embodiment, the unmanned air vehicle controller 114a can communicate with the drones base station 130 through a cellular network, the Internet network, or a mobile communication network.

For example, the unmanned aerial vehicle controller 114a can control the unmanned aerial vehicle 140 to perform a control operation for a specific area. In addition, the unmanned aerial vehicle controller 114a can plan a mission as a waypoint and an event of the unmanned aerial vehicle 140 flight. And can provide a list of commands for the helicopter missions, and can provide a list of missions to the unmanned aerial vehicle 140. The unmanned aerial vehicle controller 114a may control an infrared camera or a multispectral camera mounted on the unmanned aerial vehicle 140 according to an object to be collected. In addition, the unmanned aerial vehicle controller 114b can set a rally point for the flight of the unmanned air vehicle 140 and can control the terrain of the flying area to be tracked.

The analysis unit 114b is provided for analyzing various information collected by the unmanned aerial vehicle 140. FIG. The analysis unit 114b can grasp the progress of the pregnancy performance of the unmanned aerial vehicle 140 and analyze the result thereof. Then, the collected data is analyzed and various information about the relevant region can be acquired based on the analyzed information. In addition, the analyzed information may be informationized and stored in the storage unit 112d in various manners. For example, the information analyzed by the analysis unit 114b may be information on the crop and the land condition through near-infrared rays. Here, the information that has been informed by the analysis unit 114b may be stored in the block storage unit 116b or the object storage unit 116c through the cloud server unit 116a. Also, it can be reproduced with various information through the cloud server unit 116a.

The cloud server unit 116a is provided for accessing the cloud computing system through an Internet network or the like to process data. Accordingly, when the information collected through the unmanned aerial vehicle 140 is accumulated, the accumulated information can be easily accessed and confirmed by the user terminal 120. In particular, through the big data analysis, various information such as the average crop condition for a specific period, climate change in the corresponding region, and the like can be provided to the user through the user terminal 120.

The block storage unit 116b is provided for managing and managing data in a directory structure, managing data in accordance with file rules, and dividing a specific area and a section to manage data on a block basis.

Unlike the block storage unit 116b, the object storage unit 116c can be configured independently. And is provided in order to store unstructured unstructured data having a different form and structure, such as a picture, an image, or a document, stably, in a unit of account of the user terminal 120. As a result, data can be stored in a manner that automatically creates, archives and manages metadata including specific information about the file. Therefore, it is possible to retrieve and analyze fast files using meta data even at unstructured data.

5 is a view for explaining a method of operating an agricultural unmanned aerial vehicle service system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 5, the operation of the agricultural unmanned aerial vehicle service system 100 according to the present embodiment will be described.

First, a service application is made to use the unmanned aerial vehicle service of the agricultural service to the service server 110 by the user using the user terminal 120 (1). When the service server 110 receives a service request, the service server 110 receives the service request and analyzes what information about the area the user desires to check.

When service application reception and analysis are performed in the service server 110, a control command can be issued to the unmanned aerial vehicle 140 so that the unmanned aerial vehicle 140 can collect information about the applied area (2). At this time, the service server 110 can control and control the unmanned aerial vehicle 140 at the same time.

When the service server 110 receives a control command from the unmanned aerial vehicle 140, at least one of the plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles 140 deployed at the unmanned aerial vehicle base departs toward the region corresponding to the control command. According to the control of the service server 110, the unmanned aerial vehicle 140 can collect various information about the area or perform the control work.

When the collection of necessary information about the area is completed, the unmanned aerial vehicle (140) returns to the unmanned aerial vehicle base (④). Then, the recharged unmanned aerial vehicle 140 can be recharged.

When the unmanned aerial vehicle 140 returns to the unmanned aerial vehicle base, the information about the mission performance and the collected information are transmitted to the service server 110 through the drones base station 130 (5). Here, the collected information may be transmitted in real time to the service server 110 through the drones base station 130 while flying the corresponding area.

The collection information transmitted to the service server 110 may be stored in the storage unit 112d. The analysis information stored in the storage unit 112d may be analyzed by the analysis unit 114b. The stored information can be accessed by the user by accessing the service server 110 from the user terminal 140. At this time, the information provided through the user terminal may be information reproduced by the cloud server unit 116a through the cloud computing service.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed exemplary embodiments. It should be understood that the scope of the present invention is to be understood as the scope of the following claims and their equivalents.

100: Unmanned aerial vehicle service system
110: service server 112: web management unit
114: Air Vehicle Management Section 116: Cloud Department
120: user terminal 130: Drones base station
140: unmanned vehicle
200: wireless communication network

Claims (8)

An unmanned aerial vehicle for flying a predetermined area to perform an information gathering or control task for the area;
A service server that communicates with the unmanned aerial vehicle through a wireless communication network, controls the unmanned air vehicle, and stores information collected from the unmanned air vehicle; And
A drones base station which maintains and manages the unmanned aerial vehicle and provides a ground station service of a surveying and navigation satellite of a target area;
Wherein the service server receives the service request of the user through the web service, analyzes the service request, transmits the mission to the unmanned air vehicle, and provides the collected information and the performed mission contents to the user terminal.
The method according to claim 1,
The drones base station may be configured to communicate with the unmanned aerial vehicle and the service server, transmit control signals transmitted from the service server to the unmanned air vehicle, and transmit signals transmitted from the unmanned air vehicle to the service server, system.
4. The unmanned aerial vehicle according to claim 1,
A sensor unit including at least one of a navigation sensor, an orientation sensor, an altitude sensor, a gyro sensor, a velocity sensor, and a proximity sensor;
A photographing unit including at least one type of camera for photographing the area;
A memory unit for storing information sensed by the sensor unit and data photographed by the photographing unit;
A communication unit for wirelessly communicating with the service server; And
And a control unit controlling the sensor unit, the photographing unit, the memory unit, and the communication unit according to a control signal received from the service server.
The method of claim 3,
Wherein the camera included in the photographing unit includes at least one of an infrared camera and a multispectral camera.
The service providing system according to claim 1,
A web management unit for accessing the user terminal, requesting a service, and providing information to the user terminal;
A unmanned aerial vehicle controller for controlling the flight of the unmanned aerial vehicle; And
And an analyzer for analyzing the information collected from the unmanned aerial vehicle.
The method of claim 5,
Wherein the unmanned aerial vehicle control unit sets and controls the flight mode of the unmanned aerial vehicle as a fixed wing or a variable wing.
An application for an unmanned aerial vehicle service is performed from a user terminal to a service server through a wireless communication network;
Transmitting a control command from the service server to the unmanned air vehicle flying through the wireless communication network in order to perform an information gathering or control task for the area requested by the user terminal;
Performing an information collection or control task on the application area in the unmanned aerial vehicle;
Transmitting information collected from the unmanned aerial vehicle or a result of executing the pollution mission to the service server through a wireless communication network; And
And analyzing and storing information transmitted to the service server so as to be confirmed by the user terminal.
The method of claim 7,
Wherein the command transmitted from the service server to the unmanned aerial vehicle is transmitted through a drones base station that manages the unmanned aerial vehicle and performs surveying of the area and operation of a precise GPS ground station service.

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