Aerial vehicle based damage avoidance system including safety apparatus for mitigating damage to nearby bystanders or vehicles

An aerial vehicle based damage avoidance system, comprising:

• a) a plurality of aerial vehicles, each flying along a unique flight path and comprising a body and a plurality of flight dependent systems;
• b) parachute deployment apparatus interactable with an undeployed parachute which is retained in a chamber attached to said aerial vehicle body;
• c) one or more servers;
• and
• d) a base station in data communication with said plurality of aerial vehicles and said one or more servers, wherein said base station is in data communication by means of an Application Programming Interface (API) and a corresponding continuously established communication channel with each of said one or more servers,
• wherein each of said aerial vehicles comprises safety apparatus for mitigating damage to nearby bystanders or aerial vehicles when the aerial vehicle is experiencing an unanticipated failure, said safety apparatus comprising:
• i. one or more on-board sensors including a location detector which are configured to detect flight related characteristics;
• ii. a processing unit configured to process outputs of each of the on-board sensors and to detect a critical failure;
• iii. a remote communication unit configured to transmit an instantaneous location identifier to said base station and to generate and transmit an aerial vehicle specific critical failure alarm signal to said base station following detection of the critical failure;
• and
• iv. an activation unit configured to activate a lift generator deactivation unit and the parachute deployment apparatus following detection of the critical failure, in order to initiate a descent operation along a descent path,
• wherein said safety apparatus is operational independently of said flight dependent systems one of which is liable to be malfunctioned due to the critical failure,
• wherein said base station is configured to calculate the descent path of the failed aerial vehicle and to transmit another failure indicating alert signal to said one or more servers for alerting, by an application or a wireless message, a corresponding electronic device accessible to all entities in communication with any of said two or more servers that are predicted to be within a danger range of the failed aerial vehicle relative to the calculated descent path,
• wherein one of the one or more servers is an unmanned aircraft traffic management system (UTM) server which is configured to allocate an airspace to each of said plurality of aerial vehicles and to thereby grant authorization to fly along the unique flight path,
• wherein said UTM server is configured to simultaneously transmit an update signal to all neighboring aerial vehicles that are predicted to cross the descent path of the failed aerial vehicle, said update signal being indicative of an aerial vehicle specific updated flight path that causes each of said neighboring aerial vehicles to urgently change its flight path to avoid collision with the failed aerial vehicle.

An aerial vehicle based damage avoidance system, comprising:

• a) a plurality of aerial vehicles, each flying along a unique flight path and comprising a body and a plurality of flight dependent systems;
• b) parachute deployment apparatus interactable with an undeployed parachute which is retained in a chamber attached to said aerial vehicle body;
• c) one or more servers;
• and
• d) a base station in data communication with said plurality of aerial vehicles and said one or more servers, wherein said base station is in data communication by means of an Application Programming Interface (API) and a corresponding continuously established communication channel with each of said one or more servers,
• wherein each of said aerial vehicles comprises safety apparatus for mitigating damage to nearby bystanders or aerial vehicles when the aerial vehicle is experiencing an unanticipated failure, said safety apparatus comprising:
• i. one or more on-board sensors including a location detector which are configured to detect flight related characteristics;
• ii. a processing unit configured to process outputs of each of the on-board sensors and to detect a critical failure;
• iii. a remote communication unit configured to transmit an instantaneous location identifier to said base station and to generate and transmit an aerial vehicle specific critical failure alarm signal to said base station following detection of the critical failure;
• and
• iv. an activation unit configured to activate a lift generator deactivation unit and the parachute deployment apparatus following detection of the critical failure, in order to initiate a descent operation along a descent path,
• wherein said safety apparatus is operational independently of said flight dependent systems one of which is liable to be malfunctioned due to the critical failure,
• wherein said base station is configured to calculate the descent path of the failed aerial vehicle and to transmit another failure indicating alert signal to said one or more servers for alerting, by an application or a wireless message, a corresponding electronic device accessible to all entities in communication with any of said two or more servers that are predicted to be within a danger range of the failed aerial vehicle relative to the calculated descent path,
• wherein the one or more servers are configured to transmit an emergency alert, by an application or a wireless message, to the corresponding electronic device that is accessible to bystanders as to an approach of the failed aerial vehicle,
• wherein said base station is also in data communication with a local cellular base station that is in communication range of the descent path of the failed aerial vehicle, and is thereby configured to determine which one or more mobile phones held by corresponding users are located in the vicinity of the descent path of the failed aerial vehicle and to transmit an alert signal to the one or more mobiles phones over a cellular network to allow the corresponding users to find immediate shelter.