If an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is low on power, it will automatically land and recharge at a nearby charging base. It will continue to execute subsequent flight tasks after recharging, or the flight task will be assigned to another UAV.
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The Automatic Police unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) Patrol System (APUPS) from ITRI provides fully automated drone police patrols and wildfire monitoring. It boosts efficiency, deployment flexibility, and surveillance quality for police and firefighters, minimizing human involvement during patrols and rescue missions and aiding police agencies that work with mountainous landscapes and poor road conditions.
APUPS consists of a UAV ground control station, smart charging stations, and multi-rotor UAVs with remote multi-radio and 4G/LTE video streaming.
The APUPS can simultaneously control multiple UAVs assigned independent flight tasks, and UAVs low on power will land and recharge at nearby charging bases and execute subsequent flight tasks after recharging. The system also supports shift-taking, in which another fully charged UAV can continue the flight route of a UAV that needs to return to a charging base. This enables continuous patrol routes previously limited by power restrictions.
In the event of a wildfire, for example, APUPS can identify a fire’s starting point, monitor its spread, and display audio and visual signals at the ground control center. The system can operate day or night. Field testing of the APUPS system has been completed by Taiwan’s National Police Agency, and the agency plans to implement APUPS across the country in 2019.
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