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Domestic drone port for TOA project

　The "Take Off Anywhere Project (TOA Project)", which aims to ensure the social implementation of drone technology, held a press conference in Tokyo on February 9, 2022, and developed a drone port that can automatically take off, land, and charge drones. announced that it did. It is also equipped with an opening and closing mechanism that serves as an all-weather shelter for outdoor operation, and it is said that the domestic drone port, which is designed and developed in Japan and is mass-produced in earnest, is the first example. First of all, we aim to deliver to the leading customer by the end of 2022, and from 2023, we plan to start mass production and shipment with a scale of 100 units or more. [External dimensions and specifications of the domestic drone port] In February 2021, the TOA project, launched by six companies: SUNDRED, Autonomous Control Systems Laboratory (ACSL), Sensyn Robotics, PHB Design, VFR, and Rikei, is called the 100-year life era. The theme is "making drones that make people happy." In line with this theme, Phase 1 of the activity was set up with a drone port to operate drones, which are laborious and costly, such as carrying the aircraft by car and flying it by dividing various tasks among multiple people. It is a technology development that allows one person to go to the site in a car and perform all the operations with one operation. The domestic drone port announced this time will be a big stepping stone for one-operation operation of drones. Koichiro Yuasa, president of VFR, which led the development, said, "The origin of the word drone is the bee, but the basis of the bee ecosystem is the bee's nest. The drone port, which is the nest for drones, will help the TOA project achieve the goal of 'drone'. We will be able to realize a world where anyone can use it whenever they need it.” The developed drone port will be for ACSL's industrial drone "ACSL-PF2". The external dimensions are 1900 mm wide x 1650 mm deep x 1180 mm high when the shelter is closed, and 4125 mm wide when the opening/closing mechanism is opened. Weight is 400kg. It has an IP54 dustproof and waterproof function, the drive power supply is AC100V, and communication can use LAN or Wi-Fi.

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