Methods and systems of anchoring an unmanned aerial vehicle on a ground station
AssigneePercepto Robotics Ltd
InventorsRaviv Raz, Jonathan Jaffe, Sagi Blonder
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Abstract
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) ground station, comprising: a landing surface having a perimeter and a center; a plurality of pushers held above the landing surface by a plurality of linear actuators; at least one electro-mechanical connector attached to one of the plurality of pushers, mechanically adapted to be electrically connected to a compatible electro-mechanical connector of a UAV; and a landing detection controller adapted to instruct the plurality of linear actuators to move the plurality of pushers simultaneously from the perimeter toward the center when a landing event related to the UAV is detected.
Claims17
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) ground station, comprising:
- a landing surface having a perimeter and a center;
- a plurality of pushers held above said landing surface by a plurality of actuators, wherein the plurality of pushers comprises:
- a first pair of opposing pushers which are mounted in parallel to one another, and
- a second pair of opposing pushers which are mounted in parallel to one another and perpendicularly to the first pair of opposing pushers;
- at least one electro-mechanical connector attached to one of said plurality of pushers, mechanically adapted to be electrically connected to a compatible electro-mechanical connector of a UAV;
- and
- a landing detection controller adapted to instruct said plurality of actuators to move said plurality of pushers from said perimeter toward said center when a landing event related to said UAV is detected.
A method of anchoring an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to a UAV ground station, comprising:
- detecting a landing event related to a UAV on a landing surface of a UAV ground station having a perimeter and a center;
- and
- in response to the detection of the landing event instructing a plurality of actuators to move a plurality of pushers held above said landing surface from said perimeter toward said center;
- wherein the plurality of pushers comprises:
- a first pair of opposing pushers which are mounted in parallel to one another and having at least one electro-mechanical connector attached to at least one pusher of said first pair of pushers, and
- a second pair of opposing pushers which are mounted in parallel to one another and perpendicularly to the first pair of opposing pushers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.