As the trial stage, the peak village of Odom town is about 15 km from the Odomo post office in the center of Odom town, about 30 minutes by car. In addition, about 550 meters above sea level in Odom Field, the peak life improvement center is about 790 meters above sea level, about 240 meters above sea level. Odom Post Office has such mountain settlements start peak village management, mail delivery is half a day to come back around these settlements. In addition, in winter, if the road freezes or snows, the distribution of cars and motorcycles becomes difficult, and sometimes the delivery man will go up the ramp to deliver mail.
東京都とはいえ標高1000mを超える尾根の山々を望む峰集落。約2km離れた奥多摩フィールドから写真の峰生活改善センターまで飛行するUAVが通信する携帯電話基地局は、同敷地に立つこの1本だけだという。In view of such a subject, Japan Post began to use UAV and UGV for distribution a long time ago, in order to improve the shortage of manpower and the efficiency of distribution in the future. In March 2020, UAV conducted a trial of delivering mail directly from the Odomo Post Office to the residence in Odomo. However, UAV has to deliver the luggage directly to the home, and there are also many problems in the landing site and safety. Therefore, this time through the combination with UGV, it has become the form of direct delivery to the house.
Japan Post Executive Director Shinobu Koike also said: "for the first time, Japan combines drones and distribution robots to actually deliver, but it can operate stably." In the future, while repeatedly carrying out such experiments, we will devote ourselves to practicality, "and evaluated this trial.
In addition, Satoshi Jiutani, president of ACSL, which provides UAV, said, "as a milestone in continuing to promote the upgrading of the distribution network, drones can be used in a high direction in the mountain area." In the future, we will promote technology development at level 4 in 2022 and make good efforts for social implementation after 2023. "
In addition, Hishiro Taniguchi, general manager of ZMP, said: "in the past, although there was a lot of traffic between cars and people, the sidewalks and lanes were perfect. However, in this test, we drove on the same road. New technical challenges have been made in an environment where roadsides are treated as sidewalks. In addition, it can also be confirmed on the ramp that there is no problem, and the technical project of the distribution robot has been completed.