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US 2018/0321676 A1Published application
Safety System for Operation of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
AssigneeAeroVironment, Inc.
InventorsThaddeus Benjamin Matuszeski, William Arden Lott, Derek Lisoski
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Abstract
Systems, devices, and methods for a safety system including: selecting an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) command on a controller, the controller comprising a first processor with addressable memory; presenting a first activator and a second activator on a display of the controller for the selected UAV command, wherein the second activator is a slider; and sending the UAV command to a UAV if the first activator and the second activator are selected, the UAV comprising a second processor with addressable memory.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- selecting an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) command on a controller, the controller comprising a first processor with addressable memory;
- presenting a first activator and a second activator on a display of the controller for the selected UAV command, wherein the second activator is a slider;
- and
- sending the UAV command to a UAV if the first activator and the second activator are selected, the UAV comprising a second processor with addressable memory.
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A method comprising:
- determining, by a processor of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), a remaining battery state of charge needed by the UAV to return to and land at a launch location;
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- commanding, by the processor of the UAV, the UAV to return to and land on the launch location if the determined remaining battery state of charge is within a set limit.
A system comprising:
- an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) having a processor and addressable memory;
- the processor configured to:
- determine a UAV command based on a set of status information of the UAV, wherein the set of status information is received from at least one sensor associated with the UAV;
- transmit the determined command to a controller for confirmation;
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- a controller having a processor and addressable memory, wherein the controller is configured to:
- receive a transmitted UAV command from the UAV;
- present a first activator and a second activator on a display of the controller for the selected UAV command, wherein the second activator is a slider;
- confirm that the first activator and the second activator are executed successfully;
- and
- send the UAV command confirmation to the UAV for execution at the UAV of the command;
- wherein the UAV executes the UAV command based on receiving the confirmation.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.