Status Display of Unmanned Construction Machine for Initial Response of Sediment Disasters

― 1st report: Initial Experiments of Information Acquisition System by Multi-Rotor UAV with a Wired Power Feeding System Mounted on an Unmanned Construction Machine ―

Abstract

Our research goal is to improve a status display of information acquisition system for unmanned construction machines to conduct an initial response (within 1 month) of sediment disasters. One of our approaches is to fly a tethered multi-rotor UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) that mounts a camera, and to obtain environmental information around the construction machine. In order to advance this idea, we conducted a simple flight test of our multi-rotor UAV around a constructed machine. In this paper, we report the initial test, and introduce our lessons learned.