Hazardous drone identification and avoidance system
AssigneeDrone Traffic, LLC
InventorRichard Eric Zelenka
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Abstract
An aviation system to identify and avoid airborne drones presenting a flight risk to piloted aircraft. Hazardous drones are identified through piloted aircraft airborne sensors and combined with any available knowledge of anticipated drone activity to provide a safety warning to the piloted aircraft. The safety warning and real-time identification of hazardous drones may be shared among multiple piloted aircraft, to include aircraft unequipped with airborne sensors.
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A system to identify and avoid hazardous airborne drones, the system comprising:
- a surveillance subsystem acquiring at least one image of a hazardous drone operating in an airspace adjacent a first aircraft;
- a navigational subsystem providing first aircraft state data associated with the at least one image of the hazardous drone;
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- a communication subsystem transmitting the at least one image of the hazardous drone and the first aircraft state data to a receiving station;
- wherein the at least one image of the hazardous drone and the first aircraft state data are received by the receiving station.
A method to detect an airborne drone, the method comprising:
- acquiring at least one image of an airborne drone using a surveillance system;
- providing a first aircraft state data associated with the at least one image of the airborne drone using a navigational subsystem;
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- transmitting the at least one image of the airborne drone and the first aircraft state data to a receiving station using a communication subsystem;
- wherein the at least one image of the airborne drone and the first aircraft state data are received by the receiving station.
A system to detect an airborne drone, the system comprising:
- a sensor acquiring at least one image of an airborne drone, the sensor mounted on a first aircraft;
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- a communication subsystem transmitting the at least one image of the airborne drone to a receiving station;
- wherein the at least one image of the airborne drone is received by the receiving station.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.