Emergency shutdown and landing for passenger drones and unmanned aerial vehicles with air traffic control systems
AssigneeETAK Systems, LLC
InventorLee Priest
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Abstract
Systems and methods for emergency shutdown and landing by an Air Traffic Control (ATC) system for passenger drones include detecting a passenger drone is one of distressed and rogue; determining timing for a shutdown and a location for landing; and communicating the determined timing and the landing location to the passenger drone by the Air Traffic Control system via one or more wireless networks comprising at least one cellular network, wherein the passenger drone is constrained in flight based on cell coverage over the at least one cellular network.
Claims20
A method for emergency shutdown and landing by an Air Traffic Control (ATC) system for passenger drones, the method comprising:
- detecting a passenger drone is one of distressed and rogue;
- determining timing for a shutdown and a location for landing;
- and
- communicating the determined timing and the landing location to the passenger drone by the Air Traffic Control system via one or more wireless networks comprising at least one cellular network.
An Air Traffic Control (ATC) system for passenger drones supporting emergency shutdown and landing, the ATC system comprising:
- a network interface and one or more processors communicatively coupled to one another, wherein the network interface is communicatively coupled to a plurality of passenger drones via one or more wireless networks;
- and
- memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the one or more processors to
- detect a passenger drone is one of distressed and rogue;
- determine timing for a shutdown and a location for landing;
- and
- communicate the determined timing and the landing location to the passenger drone via the one or more wireless networks comprising at least one cellular network.
A passenger drone supporting emergency shutdown and landing, the passenger drone comprising:
- one or more rotors disposed to a body;
- a camera associated with the body;
- wireless interfaces;
- a processor coupled to the wireless interfaces and the camera;
- and
- memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to:
- detect the passenger drone is one of distressed and rogue;
- determine timing for a shutdown and a location for landing;
- and
- receive the determined timing and the landing location to the passenger drone from an Air Traffic Control (ATC) system via one or more wireless networks comprising at least one cellular network.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.