Uploading a mission plan to a remote vehicle

A system for uploading a mission plan to a deployed remote vehicle, the system comprising:

• a non-transitory memory for storing machine executable instructions;
• and
• a processor core that accesses the memory and executes the machine executable instructions, the machine executable instructions comprising:
• a mission plan module that generates a mission plan for a deployed remote vehicle based on user input, wherein the mission plan comprises a plurality of commands for the deployed remote vehicle;
• and
• a burst upload module that:
• receives the mission plan;
• selects a given subset of commands of the plurality of commands for the deployed remote vehicle;
• transmits the given subset of commands to a data link interface (DLI) module on a first stream of packets of a first protocol, the given subset of commands is transmitted with a burst mode operation based on burst rate parameters;
• receive a set of response messages from the remote vehicle responsive to the given subset of commands;
• selects a next subset of commands of the plurality of commands for the deployed remote vehicle;
• and
• transmits the next subset of commands on the first stream of packets of a first protocol if the response messages indicate that each command in the given subset of commands has been accepted for execution by the deployed remote vehicle and terminates a transmission of the plurality of commands if the response messages indicate that a particular command in the given subset of commands has been rejected for execution by the deployed remote vehicle;
• a DLI controller that executes the DLI module, wherein the DLI module:
• converts the first stream of packets in the first protocol into a second stream of packets in a second protocol;
• transmits the second stream of packets to a ground communication element (GCE);
• and
• the GCE comprising an antenna that:
• wirelessly communicates with the deployed remote vehicle to send the second stream of packets to the deployed remote vehicle and to receive the set of response messages from the deployed remote vehicle.

A method for transmitting a mission plan to a deployed remote vehicle comprising:

• receiving, by a burst upload module executing on a computing platform, a mission plan for a deployed remote vehicle, wherein the mission plan comprises a plurality of commands for the deployed remote vehicle;
• selecting, by the burst upload module, a given subset of commands of the plurality of commands for the deployed remote vehicle;
• transmitting, by the burst upload module, the given subset of commands to a data link interface (DLI) module over a network, wherein the given subset of commands is transmitted with a burst mode operation based on burst rate parameters, causing the DLI module to transmit the given subset of commands to the deployed remote vehicle through a ground communication element;
• receiving, by the burst upload module, a set of response messages from the remote vehicle responsive to the given subset of commands;
• and
• transmitting, by the burst upload module, a next subset of commands of the plurality of commands to the DLI module over the network if the response messages indicate that each command in the given subset of commands has been accepted for execution by the deployed remote vehicle and terminates a transmission of the plurality of commands if the response messages indicate that a particular command in the given subset of commands has been rejected for execution by the deployed remote vehicle.