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US 12,704,355 B2Granted
Multimode unmanned aerial vehicle
AssigneeAeroVironment, Inc.
InventorCarlos Thomas Miralles
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Abstract
A system comprising an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) configured to transition from a terminal homing mode to a target search mode, responsive to an uplink signal and/or an autonomous determination of scene change.
Claims20
A system comprising:
- a processing unit configured to transition an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) from a first trajectory to impact a target to a second trajectory to avoid impact of the target by the UAV, wherein the transition is responsive to one or more of:
- an external command to transition the UAV from the first trajectory to the second trajectory and an indicator generated by onboard processing of the processing unit as an autonomous determination of scene change.
A method comprising:
- transitioning, by a processing unit, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) from a first trajectory to impact a target to a second trajectory avoiding impact of the target by the UAV, wherein the transition is responsive to one or more of:
- an external command to transition the UAV from the first trajectory to the second trajectory and an indicator generated by onboard processing of the processing unit as an autonomous determination of scene change.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.