Drone Technology, Cutting-Edge Drone Business, and Future Prospects

Kenzo Nonami

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JRM Vol.28 No.3 pp. 262-272

doi: 10.20965/jrm.2016.p0262

(2016)

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Drone Technology, Cutting-Edge Drone Business, and Future Prospects

Kenzo Nonami

Chiba University
1-33 Yayoi-cho, Inage-ku, Chiba 263-8522, Japan

Received:

March 27, 2016

Accepted:

April 6, 2016

Published:

June 20, 2016

Keywords:

drone, mini-surveyor, drone business, cutting-edge drone technology, mini-surveyor consortium

Abstract

The year 2015 marked the beginning of a new phase in the history of drones in which drones came into use for business purposes in addition to the conventional ones flown for recreational purposes, and the amended Civil Aeronautic Act became effective in the same year. In 2016, full-scale drone businesses including the inspection of infrastructures, measurements, security, and disaster responses are expected to begin. An overview of the rapidly expanding drone business and the attempt to deliver objects using drones in Chiba, which is called the industrial revolution in the sky, are presented in this paper. Next, the technological characteristics of mini-surveyors using domestic, production-model drones are introduced, and the use of mini-surveyors is outlined. Cutting-edge research and overseas trends are also discussed. In addition, the approach of the mini-surveyor consortium and the amended Civil Aeronautic Act are introduced. Finally, the tough robotics challenge of an innovative research and development promotion program ImPACT involving the entire Japan and the future society where drones are spreading are described.

Autonomous drone: MIni-surveyor MS-06LA

Cite this article as:

K. Nonami, “Drone Technology, Cutting-Edge Drone Business, and Future Prospects,” J. Robot. Mechatron., Vol.28 No.3, pp. 262-272, 2016.

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This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationa License.

[1] [1] K. Nonami et al., “Autonomous Flying Robots,” Springer, 2010

[2] [2] T. Furui, A. Hori, D. Iwakura, and K. Nonami, “Online mass estimation and autonomous control of multi-rotor helicopter,” Proc.of the 12th Motion and Vibration Control Conf., Hokkaido, 2014.

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