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US 10,494,093 B1Granted
Multimode unmanned aerial vehicle
AssigneeAeroVironment, Inc.
InventorCarlos Thomas Miralles
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Abstract
A system comprising an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) configured to transition from a terminal homing mode to a target search mode, responsive to an uplink signal and/or an autonomous determination of scene change.
Claims20
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) comprising:
- a processing unit which transitions the UAV from a first trajectory to impact a target to a second trajectory to avoid impact of the target by the UAV, wherein the transition is responsive to an external command to transition the UAV from the first trajectory to the second trajectory.
A method comprising:
- transitioning, by a processing unit, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) from a first trajectory to impact a target to a second trajectory avoiding impact of the target by the UAV, wherein the transition is responsive to an external command to transition the UAV from the first trajectory to the second trajectory.
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) comprising:
- a processing unit which transitions the UAV from a first trajectory to a second trajectory, wherein the processing unit provides no power to a motor of the UAV in the first trajectory, and wherein the processing unit provides power to the motor of the UAV during the UAV transition to avoid impact by the UAV, and wherein the transition is responsive to an external command to transition the UAV from the first trajectory to the second trajectory.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.