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AssigneeThe Boeing Company
InventorsGaroe Gonzalez, Anna-Lisa Mautes, Hugo Eduardo Teomitzi, Michael Christian Büddefeld
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A system and method for conducting preflight planning for autonomous flight missions of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The system includes use of a controller to conduct quantitative risk assessments of available digital data to predict low risk flight routes based on estimated flight risk profiles. The flight risk profiles may be based upon flight safety-critical information, including real time regulatory, airspace, obstacle, and infrastructure data sets. Among other data sets, the flight risk profiles may also account for current weather, current population and traffic data, and aircraft operational data specific to the UAV involved. Each risk assessment can generate a flight risk profile dependent on proposed times of travel, from which a low risk route may be predicted for any impending autonomous aircraft flight. Such risk assessments may enhance chances of expeditious regulatory acceptance of flight plans for such predetermined flight routes.
A preflight planning system for quantitatively assessing and minimizing risks associated with potential unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flight routes, the system comprising:
A controller, comprising:
A method of preflight planning potential UAV flight routes in a manner that quantitatively assesses and minimizes risks;
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