Aerial vehicle control using ballast
AssigneeX Development LLC
InventorsSameera S. Ponda, Salvatore J. Candido, Jacob Roberts
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Abstract
A system for controlling an aerial vehicle includes an aerial vehicle, a ballast coupled to the aerial vehicle, a server including a processor and a memory, and a wireless communication link that communicatively couples the aerial vehicle and the server. the memory stores instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the server to receive weather data, determine, based on the weather data, that the aerial vehicle is experiencing, or is expected to experience, weather that satisfies a predetermined criterion, and cause the aerial vehicle to decouple at least a portion of the ballast based on a result of the determination.
Claims20
A system for controlling an aerial vehicle, the system comprising:
- an aerial vehicle;
- a ballast coupled to the aerial vehicle;
- and
- a server communicatively coupled to the aerial vehicle by means of a wireless communication link, the server including a processor and a memory storing instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the server to:
- receive weather data,
- determine, based on the weather data, that the aerial vehicle is experiencing, or is expected to experience, weather that satisfies a predetermined criterion, and
- cause the aerial vehicle to decouple at least a portion of the ballast based on a result of the determination.
A method for controlling an aerial vehicle, the method comprising:
- receiving weather data;
- determining, based on the weather data, that an aerial vehicle is experiencing, or is expected to experience, weather that satisfies a predetermined criterion;
- and
- causing the aerial vehicle to decouple at least a portion of a ballast coupled to the aerial vehicle based on a result of the determination.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause a computing device to:
- receive weather data;
- determine, based on the weather data, that an aerial vehicle is experiencing, or is expected to experience, weather that satisfies a predetermined criterion;
- and
- cause the aerial vehicle to decouple at least a portion of a ballast coupled to the aerial vehicle based on a result of the determination.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.