Drone satellite
OwnerJesse Deniro Collingsinventor
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Abstract
The present disclosure provides a drone system for surveying an area and transmitting collected video data to a headpiece display worn by a user operating a remote control for the drone. The drone itself includes a main drone coupled to a detachable relay drone which can disengage and be deployed therefrom mid-air in response to a detection of a loss of signal or signal quality below a predetermined threshold between the main drone and either the headpiece or the remote control. The main drone and relay drone then are programmed to fly in tandem to maintain the best signal strength until the relay drone is no longer needed at which point they can re-engage.
Claims17
A drone system comprising:
- a main drone comprising a first propulsion system, a first power source, a first sensor array including a video camera, a first wireless communications module, a first onboard controller, and a holding cavity;
- a relay drone detachably connected to the holding cavity and comprising a second propulsion system, a second power source, a second sensor array, a second wireless communications module, and a second onboard controller;
- a remote control device configured to transmit control signals to the first and second onboard controllers;
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- a wearable headpiece comprising a display and being configured to receive signals from the first and second onboard controllers;
- wherein a first onboard controller is configured to transmit data captured by the first sensor array to the wearable headpiece, including a set of video data to be displayed on the display of the headpiece so that a wearer has a first-person view of the main drone's surroundings;
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- wherein the first and second onboard controllers are configured with navigation algorithms configured to deploy and fly the relay drone from the main drone in coordinated flight so as to relay signals between the remote control/headpiece and the main drone through the relay drone in response to a detection of the main drone leaving communications range of the remote control and headpiece.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.