With its own drone flight app and drone image analysis engine, Meissa is conducting extensive drone research. However, some of the current regulations governing unmanned aircraft, including drones, fail to keep pace with the rapid changes of emerging industries and can end up holding them back. In response, the government provides an 'experimental testbed for innovation' grounded in safety, in order to foster innovative industrial growth and establish optimized regulatory frameworks. This is precisely the 'drone regulatory sandbox,' and here we introduce the sandbox research Meissa is currently conducting.
Some of the current unmanned-aircraft regulations that pose obstacles
The image above shows the <Pilot Compliance Requirements> among the current unmanned-aircraft regulations. Among these, the most representative regulation relevant to the construction drone industry is the item in the final paragraph: 'Flight is prohibited when the operator cannot directly see the aircraft with the naked eye.' This establishes visual line-of-sight flight as the guiding principle, and because of this item, large-scale construction and civil-engineering sites faced the limitation of having to divide the flight area into sections to carry out drone imaging.
Accordingly, Meissa is taking part in a sandbox project that eases some of these regulations, conducting the research together with Argosdyne. Meissa has its own drone flight app that manages the flight path for each on-site project and enables automated imaging, an integrated solution designed with an eye toward eventual remote drone flight via the Meissa platform. Still, the current regulation mandating visual line-of-sight flight and the issue of the short drone battery life of roughly 40 minutes remain problems that must be solved.
Argosdyne's station<Source : https://argosdyne.com/>
Argosdyne is a company researching and developing automated drone operation systems, producing drones for control missions and unmanned stations capable of precise takeoff and landing. Stations are drawing attention as an alternative for overcoming the limit on the total battery capacity a drone can carry, and are being actively developed both at home and abroad; unmanned takeoff and landing via laser guidance is expected to become the single most essential function for remote drone use.
Through this sandbox research, Meissa plans to advance remote automated drone flight by making full use of unmanned automated takeoff/landing and station charging functions. In particular, Meissa Flight, which runs on mobile, can be easily installed and used by any on-site member who owns a smartphone, and will also enable drone control optimized for each individual site.
