JPH0454080Y2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] [Field of industrial application] The present invention is a remote control system for aircraft monitoring that is used to check the failure status inside the aircraft when a failure occurs in the aircraft in flight. Regarding the pilot aircraft.

[Prior Art] In recent years, aircraft safety has become very high, and unless there is a pilot error or defect, failure or damage will not occur.However, there is still an extremely small percentage of failures or damage that occur, leading to accidents. There is also. Here, while it is possible to relatively easily confirm failures that occur inside the aircraft, such as in the electrical system, with a monitor device during flight, failures or damage that occur outside the aircraft, especially directly on the aircraft, It is difficult to confirm the detailed situation from inside the aircraft.

However, in this case, it is necessary to operate the aircraft according to the state of damage, so conventionally, it was necessary to contact the ground and have the damage state of the aircraft confirmed from the ground while flying at a low altitude, or They relied on third-party confirmation, such as confirmation from other aircraft flying nearby.

[Problem that the invention aims to solve] However, the problem that occurred in the aircraft was
If you ask a third party to confirm the situation, since you are in flight, there is a limit to how close you can get to a third party, and it will not be possible to clearly confirm the situation. Also, if it occurs at night, it is difficult to confirm. Furthermore, there are other problems such as not necessarily flying at a point that can be confirmed by a third party.

The present invention was developed in view of the above-mentioned problems, and the purpose is to provide a remote control aircraft for aircraft monitoring that makes it possible to clearly confirm malfunctions occurring on the exterior of the aircraft during flight. shall be.

[Means and effects for solving the problems] In other words, the remote control aircraft for aircraft monitoring according to the present invention flies by radio control from a mother aircraft, and a small control aircraft equipped with a camera is mounted on the aircraft and Accordingly, the aircraft is started based on a command from the mother machine, and the images taken by the camera are output as images within the mother machine.

[Embodiment] An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

Figure 1 shows its configuration. In the figure, 11 is an aircraft (mother aircraft), and this aircraft 1
A hangar 12 is provided at the rear of the aircraft 1, and a small pilot aircraft 13 is stored and mounted in the hangar 12. This small pilot aircraft 13 is a cockpit 1 of the aircraft 11.
The flight is controlled by radio control from a transmitter 15 installed at 4, and this pilot aircraft 13 is equipped with a camera 16 at its tip. This camera 1
6 employs an infrared camera or the like that can take pictures even at night, and the image signal taken by this camera 16 is received by the aircraft 11 and displayed as an image on the image receiving surface 17 installed in the cockpit 14. Output.

That is, in the remote control aircraft for aircraft monitoring having the above configuration, the small control aircraft 1 mounted on the aircraft 11
3 takes off in response to a command from the mother aircraft cockpit 14 when necessary (such as when an abnormality occurs in the aircraft). In this case, since the flight is freely controlled by radio control from the cockpit 14, the small pilot aircraft 13 can be operated by the camera 16 from a close distance to the body of the aircraft 11.
It becomes possible to take images of the aircraft. As a result, a clear image of the aircraft will be projected on the image receiving surface 17 of the cockpit 14, and the pilot will be able to easily see the location of the problem that has occurred in the aircraft.
It becomes possible to accurately judge the defect status. Therefore, the pilot can take appropriate measures and control operations according to the defective state of the aircraft, and can fly while minimizing the effects of damage to the aircraft. After photographing the aircraft image, the small pilot aircraft 13 is guided to a safety zone on the ground or on the sea.

Figures 2A and 2B show the aircraft images output to the image receiving surface 17, respectively. Figure 2A shows the defective part in the vertical stabilizer (missing), and Figure 2B shows the defective part in the vertical tail (missing), This shows the state that occurs when the battery is half open.

In addition, the camera 16 provided in the small pilot aircraft 13
Since an infrared camera or the like is used, the same effect as above can be obtained even at night.

On the other hand, if the small pilot aircraft 13 is equipped with a voice recorder, an aircraft status storage device, etc., it can be effectively used to investigate the cause after an accident.

[Effects of the invention] As described above, according to the invention, a small control aircraft that flies by radio control from the mother aircraft and is equipped with a camera is mounted on the aircraft and launched as required by commands from the mother aircraft. Since the image taken by the camera is configured to be output as a video inside the mother aircraft, it is possible to provide a remote control aircraft for monitoring an aircraft that makes it possible to clearly confirm a malfunction occurring at a location outside the aircraft body during flight.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram showing a remote control device for aircraft monitoring according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIGS. 2A and B show different defective locations that are output as images on the image receiving surface of the remote control device for aircraft monitoring, respectively. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an aircraft image. 11... Aircraft (mother aircraft), 12... Hangar, 1
3...Small control aircraft, 14...Kotkupitsuto, 15
...Transmitter, 16...Camera, 17...Image receiving surface.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] a small pilot aircraft mounted on an aircraft and launched according to commands from the mother aircraft as needed; a radio control means for remotely controlling the small pilot aircraft according to instructions from the mother aircraft;
A remote control aircraft for monitoring an aircraft, characterized in that it is equipped with a camera provided in the small pilot aircraft, and a communication means for receiving an image signal taken by the camera at the mother aircraft and outputting an image.