Problems to be Solved
To provide a control apparatus for an unmanned aerial vehicle and an unmanned aerial system capable of pruning a tree by appropriately specifying a pruning position to prune a branch of the tree and further adjusting a shape of the tree.
[Solution]
A control apparatus 3 for an unmanned aerial vehicle 2 according to the present invention includes a tree shape information generation section 312 capable of generating tree shape information of a target tree T1 targeted for pruning by using two or more tree images P of the target tree T1 taken from different directions and a shape generating neural network N1; a pruning position specifying section 316 capable of specifying a pruning position of the target tree T1 by using the tree shape information; an operation control section 318 capable of controlling a flight state of the unmanned aerial vehicle and an operation of the pruning structure in accordance with the pruning position P; a tree shape evaluation receiving section 313 capable of receiving a tree shape evaluation related to the tree shape information; and a shape learning section 314 capable of causing the shape generation neural network N1 to machine-learn a shape of the tree on the basis of the tree images, the tree shape information, and the tree shape evaluation.