US 10,230,450 B2 · Method for controlling hand-over in drone network

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for controlling hand-over in a drone network. A method for controlling hand-over in a drone network that is established by a plurality of drones that constitute a formation, and controlled by a ground control station (GCS) that controls the location, configuration and mobility of each of the plurality of drones according to the present invention includes a phase via which the GCS predicts, based on previously stored control information, a drone that is to be newly deployed or transferred from another formation and allocates network connection information to the drone thus predicted; a phase via which the GCS generates a virtual routing table including the drone that is thus predicted to be deployed or transferred; a phase via which the GCS, upon actual deploying or transferring the predicted drone, changes the virtual routing table into an actual routing table; and a phase via which the GCS, upon the drone thus deployed or transferred transmitting a control message of the formation routing protocol, calibrates and optimizes the routing table.

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Dependent claims

A method for controlling hand-over in a drone network that is established by a plurality of drones that constitute a formation, wherein the drone network is controlled by a ground control station (GCS) that controls the location, configuration and mobility of each of the plurality of drones, the method comprising

a phase via which the GCS collects information from the plurality of drones that constitute the formation and monitors in real time each of the plurality of drones;
a phase via which, upon finding a drone to be changed with necessity of replacement based on the monitoring activities, the GCS transfers a substitute drone that is to replace the drone to be changed to a location of the drone to be changed;
and
a phase via which the GCS copies network information of the drone to be changed onto the substitute drone, wherein, in the network information copying phase, the GCS receives from the drone to be changed the network information thereof and transfers the received network information to the substitute drone.

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a phase via which the GCS collects information from the plurality of drones that constitute the formation and monitors in real time each of the plurality of drones;
a phase via which, upon finding a drone to be changed with necessity of replacement based on the monitoring activities, the GCS transfers a substitute drone that is to replace the drone to be changed to a location of the drone to be changed;
and
a phase via which the GCS copies network information of the drone to be changed onto the substitute drone, wherein, in the network information copying phase, the GCS controls, via telemetry or a communication protocol, the drone to be changed to transfer the network information of the drone to be changed directly to the substitute drone.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Method for controlling hand-over in drone network

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