NL2024584B1 - Auxiliary charging system for drone - Google Patents
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Abstract
The present invention discloses an auxiliary charging system for a drone. The auxiliary charging system includes a charging station management module, a drone information base, an alarm module, a human-computer interaction module, a controller, an information transmission module, a drone controller, a motion control module, an image collection module, an image processing module, an ultrasonic altimeter, an individual information base, a GPS positioning module, a power supply, and a power measurement module. According to the present invention, a relationship between a flight distance and power of a drone is analyzed, and based on an actual status of an individual drone and a distance between the drone and a charging station, the drone is allocated to a most suitable charging station for charging, so that the drone can fully utilize a battery capacity, and a single flight time of the drone can be prolonged. In addition, according to the present invention, a descending process is started at a particular distance from the charging station, and landing is performed through accelerated descending and decelerated descending, so that a large amount of landing time is saved, and operating efficiency of the drone is improved.
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TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention pertains to the field of drone application technologies, and in particular, relates to an auxiliary charging system for a drone.
BACKGROUND With the rapid development of the drone industry, both commercial drones and personal drones become popular, and drone technologies on the market tend to mature. In the prior art, a main technical difficulty of a drone is a battery life issue of the drone. When the drone operates outdoors for a long time, the drone needs to be charged at regular intervals. If the drone comes back for charging, the drone needs to keep enough power to fly back. This process is not only time-consuming, but also wastes energy, thereby directly leading to a shortened effective flight time of the drone and low operating efficiency. To ensure application of the drone in the commercial field, a battery life and an effective flight time of the drone need to be ensured, and operating efficiency of the drone needs to be improved. For this problem, in the prior art, drone charging stations are established, the drone selects, in a flight process, a nearest drone charging station for charging, and a basis for entering a state of searching for a charging station is power storage of the drone. When power of the drone reaches a preset threshold, the drone starts to match a charging station. However, for different drones, different battery types, and different battery usage duration, same power storage may still cause a large difference in actual driving distances. Therefore, an electric capacity of a power supply of the drone cannot be fully used, and further, operating efficiency of the drone is reduced or a specified threshold power is not enough for the drone to reach the charging station for charging, causing drone crashes and losses. To resolve this problem, the present invention provides the following technical solutions.
SUMMARY An objective of the present invention is to provide an auxiliary charging system for a drone. Technical problems needing to be resolved in the present invention are as follows:
1. A main battery life issue of a drone in the prior art relies the following: A drone charging station is deployed. The drone implements endurance by charging by using the drone charging station. However, in the prior art, when the drone selects the drone charging station for charging, only remaining power is used as a threshold to determine whether the drone needs to be charged. Analysis cannot be made based on different types of drones and different actual battery life statuses of batteries. As a result, power of the drone is exhausted before the drone reaches the charging station or the drone is charged nearby while power is enough for the drone to reach a next charging station. In the former case, the drone is likely to crash, causing damages, and in the latter case, an effective flight time of the drone is directly reduced, thereby reducing operating efficiency.
2. Before being charged at the charging station, the drone requires the steps of landing and taking off. To ensure smooth, safe, and accurate landing of the drone, a landing speed of the drone needs to be controlled. However, if reducing the landing speed only is used to achieve this objective, the charging time may increase. How to shorten the landing time of the drone and improve charging efficiency while ensuring smooth landing of the drone is one of the problems that need to be resolved currently. The objective of the present invention may be achieved by using the following technical solutions: An auxiliary charging system for a drone includes a charging station management module, a drone information base, an alarm module, a human-computer interaction module, a controller, an information transmission module, a drone controller, a motion control module, an image collection module, an image processing module, an ultrasonic altimeter, an individual information base, a GPS positioning module, a power supply, and a power measurement module, where the power supply is configured to supply power to a drone, and the power measurement module is configured to: measure real-time power information of the drone, and transmit the measured real-time power information to the drone controller; the GPS positioning module is configured to: collect real-time location information and real-time vertical height information of the drone, and transmit the collected real-time location information and real-time vertical height information to the controller by using the drone controller and the information transmission module;
the individual information base is configured to input and store corresponding drone information, where the drone information includes a drone number, a drone model, and a drone service time; the ultrasonic altimeter is configured to: detect a vertical distance between the drone and a charging station, and transmit the detected vertical distance to the drone controller; the motion control module is configured to control and correct a traveling speed and a vertical height of the drone and a drone posture; the image collection module is configured to: collect information about a real-time image near the drone, and transmit the collected information about the real-time image to the image processing module, and after the image processing module analyzes and processes a collected image, the motion control module is controlled by using the drone controller to adjust a running status of the drone; the charging station management module is configured to record location information of a charging station, self-status information of the charging station, and charging status information of the charging station; the drone information base is configured to store all drone information in the system, where the drone information includes a drone number, a drone model, a drone service time, and a relationship between a flight distance and power of a drone, where a method for collecting the relationship between the flight distance and the power of the drone by using the drone information base is as follows: SS1. using w% of power as a detection unit, and each time the power of the drone decreases by w%, recording a flight distance L of the drone in this process, so as to obtain L1, L2, …, Ln, where a power range corresponding to the flight distance is 0- W%, W%—2W%, ..., (100-w)%—100%; SS2. after recording the N sets of data L1, L2, …, Ln, calculating an average value Ak of flight distances of a plurality of sets of data that are in a same detection unit, and then each time a new set of data L1, L2, ..., Ln is recorded, replacing the set of data that is first recorded with the new set of data L1, L2, ..., Ln; and S83. after collecting a correspondence between the flight distance Ak and the power range, establishing a coordinate system by using the power range as a horizontal coordinate axis and using the flight distance as a vertical coordinate axis, and drawing a curve graph, to predict, based on a trend of decrease of a flight distance corresponding to w% of power with reduction of the power range, a flight distance of the drone in one or more power ranges having a relatively low power, subtracting a preset value from the predicted flight distance, and using a flight distance obtained after the subtracting as a final predicted value; the alarm module is configured to send alarm information; and the human-computer interaction module is configured to establish a human- computer interaction interface.
A method for selecting a suitable charging station by the controller based on a drone status and a charging station status to charge the drone is as follows: step 1: when power of the drone reaches a preset threshold 8%, reading, by the drone controller, the drone information in the individual information base and the location information and the vertical height information that are transmitted by the GPS positioning module, transmitting the drone information, the location information, and the vertical height information to the controller, and matching, by the controller, the received individual drone information with the drone information in the drone information base to obtain the relationship between the flight distance and the power of the drone, where all drones have a same preset threshold; step 2: obtaining, by the controller, distances from the drone to three available charging stations based on the real-time location information of the drone transmitted by the GPS positioning module and charging station information stored inthe charging station management module, where the three charging stations include one available charging station opposite to a traveling direction of the drone and two available charging stations in the traveling direction of the drone, a distance from the drone to the available charging station opposite to the traveling direction is Q1, a distance from the drone to a closer charging station in the traveling direction is Q2, and a distance from the drone to a farther charging station in the traveling direction is Q3; step 3: when real-time power of the drone is in a power range, obtaining, by using a next power range of the power range as a reference for calculation, based on the power range of the power of the drone and a diagram of the relationship between the flight distance and the power in the drone information base, a distance Q that can be flown by the drone; step 4: comparing size relationships between Q and Q1, Q2, and Q3, where when Q is less than any one of Q1, Q2, and Q3, the drone lands in situ, the GPS positioning module continuously sends positioning information, and the controller controls the alarm module to send alarm information;
when Q > Q1 and Q < Q2, the drone returns to the available charging station opposite to the traveling direction for charging; when Q > Q2, and Q < Q3, the drone travels to the closer charging station in the traveling direction for charging, if the charging station is in a full load state at the 5 moment, the drone returns to the available charging station opposite to the traveling direction for charging, and if both the charging station and the available charging station opposite to the traveling direction are in a full load state, the drone lands near the charging station for queuing; and in this process, a threshold a% is set, and when the power is reduced to the threshold, the drone lands in situ, and the controller controls the alarm module to send an alarm; and step 5: when Q > Q3, performing the operations of step 2 to step 4 after the drone travels the distance Q2. In a further solution of the present invention, the power supply, the power measurement module, the GPS positioning module, the individual information base, the ultrasonic altimeter, the image collection module, the image processing module, the motion control module, and the drone controller are all installed on the drone.
In a further solution of the present invention, after a power supply of the drone is replaced, the original correspondence between the flight distance and the power of the drone is deleted from the drone information base, and a correspondence is re- established.
In a further solution of the present invention, a method for landing the drone by using the drone controller is as follows: S1. when a horizontal distance between the drone and the charging station reaches apreset value Q4, enabling the drone to start landing, and when the GPS positioning module detects that a vertical height of the drone reaches a preset value Q5, enabling, by the drone controller, the ultrasonic altimeter, and transmitting the detected vertical height to the drone controller, where the vertical height of the drone is determined by the detected value of the ultrasonic altimeter;
S2. when a vertical height of the drone reaches a preset value Q6, enabling the drone to stop landing, collecting, by the image collection module, image information of a charging platform of the charging station and transmitting the image information to the image processing module, reading, by the image processing module, corners of the charging platform to establish a closed two-dimensional shape, and controlling, by the drone controller based on a relative location between the drone and the two-dimensional shape by using the motion control module, the drone to stop inside the two-dimensional shape; and S3. a method for moving by the drone in a vertical direction is: in a process in which the drone starts landing to the vertical distance Q5, falling at a constant speed after a speed of the drone decreases at acceleration at to a speed V1; and when the vertical distance becomes Q5, starting, by the drone, to decelerate at an acceleration a2, where when the vertical distance becomes Q6, a movement speed of the drone in the vertical direction is 0, and in a process in which the vertical distance changes from Q5 to Q6, a value of the acceleration a2 is adjusted based on a difference value of Q5 and Q6.
In a further solution of the present invention, infrared diodes are installed at the corners of the charging platform.
1. According to the present invention, a relationship between a flight distance and power of a drone is analyzed, and based on an actual status of an individual drone and a distance between the drone and a charging station, the drone is allocated to a most suitable charging station for charging, so that the drone can fully utilize a battery capacity, and a single flight time of the drone can be prolonged.
2. According to the present invention, a descending process is started at a particular distance from the charging station, and landing is performed through accelerated descending and decelerated descending. In comparison with a conventional process of first performing constant-speed descending and then performing decelerated descending after staying exactly above the charging station, a large amount of landing time is saved, and operating efficiency of the drone is improved.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a system according to the present invention.
DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS The following clearly and completely describes the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention.
Definitely, the described embodiments are merely some rather than all of the embodiments of the present invention.
All other embodiments obtained by a person of ordinary skill in the art based on the embodiments of the present invention without creative efforts shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.
An auxiliary charging system for a drone, as shown in FIG. 1, includes a charging station management module, a drone information base, an alarm module, a human-computer interaction module, a controller, an information transmission module, a drone controller, a motion control module, an image collection module, an image processing module, an ultrasonic altimeter, an individual information base, a GPS positioning module, a power supply, and a power measurement module, where the power supply, the power measurement module, the GPS positioning module, the individual information base, the ultrasonic altimeter, the image collection module, the image processing module, the motion control module, and the drone controller are all installed on the drone.
The power supply is configured to supply power to a drone, and the power measurement module is configured to: measure real-time power information of the drone, and transmit the measured real-time power information to the drone controller.
The GPS positioning module is configured to: collect real-time location information and real-time vertical height information of the drone, and transmit the collected real-time location information and real-time vertical height information to the controller by using the drone controller and the information transmission module.
The individual information base is configured to input and store corresponding drone information, where the drone information includes a drone number, a drone model, and a drone service time.
The ultrasonic altimeter is configured to: detect a vertical distance between the drone and a charging station, and transmit the detected vertical distance to the drone controller.
The motion control module is configured to control and correct a traveling speed and a vertical height of the drone and a drone posture.
The image collection module is configured to: collect information about a real-time image near the drone, and transmit the collected information about the real-time image to the image processing module, and after the image processing module analyzes and processes a collected image, the motion control module is controlled by using the drone controller to adjust a running status of the drone. The charging station management module is configured to record location information of a charging station, self-status information of the charging station, and charging status information of the charging station, where the seli-status information of the charging station is whether the charging station is in a normal running state, the charging status information of the charging station is whether the charging station has a vacancy for charging, and the charging station is deployed along a flight path of the drone.
The drone information base is configured to store all drone information in the system, where the drone information includes a drone number, a drone model, a drone service time, and a relationship between a flight distance and power of a drone.
A method for collecting the relationship between the flight distance and the power of the drone by using the drone information base is as follows: SS1. Use w% of power as a detection unit, and each time the power of the drone decreases by w%, record a flight distance L of the drone in this process, so as to obtain L1, L2, … Ln, where a power range corresponding to the flight distance is 0- w%, w%—2w%, ..., (100-w)%—100%. Movement in a vertical direction is involved only when the drone takes off and lands, movement of the drone in the vertical direction is relatively small for most of the time, and takeoff and landing are not frequent. Therefore, power consumption caused by the takeoff and the landing is not taken into consideration.
882. After recording the N sets of data L1, L2, ..., Ln, calculate an average value Ak of flight distances of a plurality of sets of data that are in a same detection unit, and then each time a new set of data L1, L2, ..., Ln is recorded, replace the set of data that is first recorded with the new set of data L1, L2, … Ln. Therefore, authenticity of data is ensured, and impact of a battery loss on a running distance of the drone is reduced.
SS3. To prevent the drone from a crash due to a power outage, a threshold is often set to determine whether the drone continues to fly. Therefore, in one or more power ranges having low power, the drone may start to be charged, and consequently a sufficient data source cannot be obtained. Therefore, after collecting a correspondence between the flight distance Ak and the power range,
establish a coordinate system by using the power range as a horizontal coordinate axis and using the flight distance as a vertical coordinate axis, and draw a curve graph, to predict, based on a trend of decrease of a flight distance corresponding to w% of power with reduction of the power range, a flight distance of the drone in one or more power ranges having a relatively low power, and in order to ensure normal running of the drone, subtract a preset value from the predicted flight distance, and use a flight distance obtained after the subtracting as a final predicted value. After a power supply of the drone is replaced, the original correspondence between the flight distance and the power of the drone is deleted from the drone information base, and a correspondence is re-established. The alarm module is configured to send alarm information. The human-computer interaction module is configured to establish a human- computer interaction interface. A method for selecting a suitable charging station by the controller based on a drone status and a charging station status to charge the drone is as follows: Step 1: When power of the drone reaches a preset threshold 8%, the drone controller reads the drone information in the individual information base and the location information and the vertical height information that are transmitted by the GPS positioning module, transmits the drone information, the location information, and the vertical height information to the controller, and the controller matches the received individual drone information with the drone information in the drone information base to obtain the relationship between the flight distance and the power of the drone, where for ease of management, all drones have a same preset threshold.
Step 2: The controller obtains distances from the drone to three available charging stations based on the real-time location information of the drone transmitted by the GPS positioning module and charging station information stored in the charging station management module, where "available" means that the charging station is in a normal running state, the plurality of charging stations include one available charging station opposite to a traveling direction of the drone and two available charging stations in the traveling direction of the drone, a charging station is an aggregation point of one charging platform or a plurality of charging platforms, a distance from the drone to the available charging station opposite to the traveling direction is Q1, a distance from the drone to a closer charging station in the traveling direction is Q2, and a distance from the drone to a farther charging station in the traveling direction is Q3. Step 3: When real-time power of the drone is in a power range, obtain, by using a next power range of the power range as a reference, that is, by using, when the real-time power is in 2w%-3w%, a power range of w%—-2w% as a reference, based on the power range of the power of the drone and a diagram of the relationship between the flight distance and the power in the drone information base, a distance Q that can be flown by the drone. Step 4: Compare size relationships between Q and Q1, Q2, and QS.
When Q is less than any one of Q1, Q2, and Q3, the drone lands in situ, the GPS positioning module continuously sends positioning information, and the controller controls the alarm module to send alarm information.
When Q > Q1 and Q < Q2, the drone returns to the available charging station opposite to the traveling direction for charging. To avoid the foregoing two cases, the threshold 8% can be increased.
When Q > Q2, and Q < G3, the drone travels to the closer charging station in the traveling direction for charging, if the charging station is in a full load state at the moment, the drone returns to the available charging station opposite to the traveling direction for charging, and if both the charging station and the available charging station opposite to the traveling direction are in a full load state, the drone lands near the charging station for queuing.
In this process, a threshold a% is set, and when the power is reduced to the threshold, the drone lands in situ and waits for staff to get it. Step 5: When Q > Q3, perform the operations of step 2 to step 4 after the drone travels the distance Q2.
A method for accurately and fast landing the drone by using the drone controller is as follows: S1. When a horizontal distance between the drone and the charging station reaches a preset value Q4, the drone starts landing, that is, the drone lands while discovering that the drone is horizontally near the charging station so as to save a landing time, and when the GPS positioning module detects that a vertical height of the drone reaches a preset value Q5, the drone controller enables the ultrasonic altimeter, and transmits the detected vertical height to the drone controller, where in this case, the vertical height of the drone is determined by the detected value of the ultrasonic altimeter.
S2. When a vertical height of the drone reaches a preset value Q8, the drone no longer continues to land, at the same time the drone controller controls the image collection module to collect image information of a charging platform of the charging station and transmit the image information to the image processing module, the image processing module reads corners of the charging platform to establish a closed two-dimensional shape, and the drone controller controls, based on a relative location between the drone and the two-dimensional shape by using the motion control module, the drone to stop within the two-dimensional shape.
To ensure accuracy in identifying the corners, infrared diodes may be installed at the corners of the charging platform.
S3. A method for moving by the drone in a vertical direction is as follows: In a process in which the drone starts landing to the vertical distance Q5, the drone falls at a constant speed after a speed of the drone decreases at an acceleration at to a speed V1. When the vertical distance becomes Q5, the drone starts to decelerate at an acceleration a2, and when the vertical distance becomes Q6, a movement speed of the drone in the vertical direction is 0. In a process in which the vertical distance changes from Q5 to Q6, because a module for measuring the vertical height is changed from the GPS positioning module to the ultrasonic altimeter, a large error occurs in this process, a value of the acceleration a2 needs to change based on a difference value of Q5 and Q6. By alternating accelerated descending and decelerated descending, the landing time can be reduced in comparison with constant speed descending in the prior art.
According to the method, a descending process is started at a distance Q4 from the charging station, and landing is performed through accelerated descending and decelerated descending.
In comparison with a conventional process of first performing constant-speed descending and then performing decelerated descending after staying exactly above the charging station, a large amount of landing time is saved, and operating efficiency of the drone is improved.
The foregoing content is merely an example and description of the structure of the present invention.
Various modifications or additions made by a person skilled in the art on the described specific embodiment or replacements made by using a similar manner shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention, provided that the modifications or additions or replacements do not deviate from the structure of the present invention or do not go beyond the scope defined by the claims.
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