Tourist Drone Photography Service
Drone aerial footage is increasingly seen on mass media, social media, and various websites. However, the experience of individuals being filmed by a drone—what we call a "drone filming experience"—has not yet become widespread. Our research team is developing a commemorative drone video service for travelers.
Focusing on this untapped service area, we aim to offer a new experience menu at tourist destinations, with local tourism promotion organizations—including DMOs (Destination Management/Marketing Organizations)—serving as the business operators.
Travelers using this service can book and pay for drone filming in advance via the web. On the day of their trip, they will be filmed by a drone at the tourist spot and can immediately download an edited video on the spot.
Meanwhile, drone operators from the tourism promotion organization will prepare both the traveler and the drone at predetermined locations when the traveler arrives. With just the push of a button, the drone will automatically take off, film, and land. The edited video data will then be made available for the traveler to download.
By using our service, travelers can easily enjoy a new experience of aerial drone filming, and drone operators can provide the service with ease.
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Disaster Situation Survey Drone System
In Japan, severe natural disasters such as the Noto Peninsula earthquake and the Kumamoto heavy rains have occurred frequently. In such situations, drones have been utilized for aerial damage assessment of affected areas, delivery of supplies to isolated regions, and confirmation of missing persons. These activities, which were difficult to achieve with conventional methods, can now be carried out quickly and over a wide area.
The system developed by our research team is designed to allow drone operators to easily and efficiently obtain three-dimensional data for disaster situation assessment at the disaster site. Our system excels in three key areas: (1) low cost, (2) ease of operation, and (3) real-time capability.
Low Cost
The system is designed to use DJI's mini4 Pro drone. An Android tablet equipped with our proprietary application is connected to the controller for operation. As a result, the initial hardware cost is kept low, with all necessary components—including the drone body, batteries, controller, and tablet—being consumables priced under 100,000 yen each. The total system can be set up for approximately 200,000 to 300,000 yen.
Ease of Operation
Because the lightweight mini4 Pro is used, it can be easily carried to disaster sites. On our application, the area to be surveyed can be specified on a map using the tablet. The drone’s flight path is automatically generated, and with a single button, the drone will take off, shoot, and land without manual operation. Additionally, the system generates three-dimensional data in a one-stop process and quickly transmits it to disaster response headquarters and other relevant organizations.
Real-Time Capability
Traditionally, generating three-dimensional data using surveying technology required drones to fly multiple overlapping passes over the survey area and then spend several hours processing the data on high-performance computers, resulting in long delays. Our system can survey an area of approximately 100m x 300m in about three minutes of flight and output three-dimensional data on the cloud in about ten minutes, enabling real-time disaster assessment.
VR-based Drone Flight Path Design Tool
Drones are rapidly being adopted in a wide range of fields, including infrastructure inspection, aerial photography, agriculture, and emergency response. As a result, there is a growing demand for tools that allow for efficient and intuitive design of flight paths.
Currently mainstream waypoint-based flight path design tools require users to input the coordinates of waypoints using conventional interfaces such as keyboards and mice. With these traditional methods, it is difficult to intuitively grasp the drone’s flight path in three-dimensional space and to check for potential collisions with obstacles.
Furthermore, conventional systems lack simulation functions that allow users to dynamically preview and adjust how the drone will fly from a third-person perspective or what footage will be captured along the designed flight path prior to the actual flight.
To address these issues, we propose a new drone flight path design tool that integrates virtual reality (VR), gesture recognition, natural language processing (NLP), and artificial intelligence (AI).
With this system, users can set waypoints using natural gestures and voice commands, simulate flights in real time from multiple perspectives, and export the final path in a format compatible with general drone systems. This approach aims to lower the barriers to UAV path planning, while improving efficiency, safety, and situational awareness.
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