US 11,952,115 B2
Server apparatus, system, flight vehicle, and operation method for system
Kazuya Nishimura, Anjo (JP); Shin Sakurada, Toyota (JP); and Soutaro Kaneko, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Mar. 18, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/698,555.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-058450 (JP), filed on Mar. 30, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0315221 A1, Oct. 6, 2022
Int. Cl. B64D 1/22 (2006.01); B64C 39/02 (2023.01); B64D 3/02 (2006.01); G05D 1/00 (2006.01); B64U 101/60 (2023.01)
CPC B64C 39/024 (2013.01) [B64D 1/22 (2013.01); B64D 3/02 (2013.01); G05D 1/0027 (2013.01); G05D 1/0094 (2013.01); B64U 2101/60 (2023.01); B64U 2201/20 (2023.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A server apparatus comprising:
a communication unit; and
a control unit configured to send, to a plurality of flight vehicles, an instruction for causing the plurality of flight vehicles to perform a flight operation, wherein
the flight operation comprises:
energizing, by a first flight vehicle, a penetration tool toward a target object placed in a predetermined space, holding a first part and a second part of a cord-shaped member attached to the penetration tool, the first part being penetrated through the target object, and the second part not being penetrated through the target object, and flying to outside the predetermined space;
waiting, by a second flight vehicle, outside the predetermined space and receiving any one of the first part and the second part from the first flight vehicle; and
towing, by the first flight vehicle and the second flight vehicle, the target object with the cord-shaped member and transporting the target object to outside the predetermined space by flying while respectively holding any one and the other of the first part and the second part,
wherein when the first flight vehicle is inside the predetermined space, and is unable to ensure enough space to penetrate the penetration tool through the target object, the flight operation further comprises:
towing, by the first flight vehicle, the target object to a predetermined location in the predetermined space by gripping the target object with a gripping mechanism, and energizing the penetration tool toward the target object after towing the target object to the predetermined location.