Development of Drone Operation Manual and Analysis of Issues for Enhancing Drone Operation Safety

This paper discusses how to develop and enhance a safe system in a organization which offers drone services. This paper reviews academic papers on drone operations, summarizes latest drone regulation in Japan, and Fukushima Robot Test Field's drone operation risk assessment guideline, which was published at the end of 2022 based on Joint Authorities for Rulemaking on Unmanned Systems' Specific Operations Risk Assessment V2.0, to a specific drone delivery operation. The Fukushima guideline is one of important document for drone operators but lack of the detail procedures. This paper with development procedure and demonstration of a drone operation manual aims to help drone service operators in Japan to develop a safe system in the organization. And this paper concludes the need of academic contribution to evaluate the adequacy of the safety system of the drone operation, including development of a simulator to support.