Mobile surveillance systems and methods for uas operational support
AssigneeFLIR Detection, Inc.
InventorSean Keating
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Abstract
Mobile surveillance systems (MSSs) and related techniques are provided to improve the safety and operational flexibility of unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). An MMS includes an extendable mast and a modular sensor cluster couplable to the extendable mast. The MSS may also include a logic device configured to determine relative and/or absolute positions of UAVs within a selected airspace monitoring volume based, at least in part, on ranging sensor data provided by the modular sensor cluster, and to generate an airspace deconfliction display view corresponding to the selected airspace monitoring volume based, at least in part, on the determined relative and/or absolute positions of the UAVs and/or the selected airspace monitoring volume.
Claims20
A mobile surveillance system (MSS) for an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) comprising one or more unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), the MSS comprising:
- an extendable mast configured to be secured to a mobile terrestrial platform and provide an elevated modular sensor mount;
- a modular sensor cluster configured to couple to the modular sensor mount of the extendable mast and provide ranging sensor data corresponding to a selected airspace monitoring volume of the MSS;
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- a logic device configured to communicate with the extendable mast and the modular sensor cluster, wherein the logic device is configured to:
- determine relative and/or absolute positions of the one or more UAVs within the selected airspace monitoring volume based, at least in part, on the ranging sensor data provided by the modular sensor cluster;
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- generate an airspace deconfliction display view corresponding to the selected airspace monitoring volume based, at least in part, on the determined relative and/or absolute positions of the one or more UAVs and/or the selected airspace monitoring volume.
A method comprising:
- determining relative and/or absolute positions of one or more unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) within a selected airspace monitoring volume based, at least in part, on ranging sensor data provided by a modular sensor cluster of a mobile surveillance system (MSS) for an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) comprising the one or more UAVs;
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- generating an airspace deconfliction display view corresponding to the selected airspace monitoring volume based, at least in part, on the determined relative and/or absolute positions of the one or more UAVs and/or the selected airspace monitoring volume, wherein:
- the modular sensor cluster is coupled to a modular sensor mount provided by an extendable mast of the MSS;
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- the extendable mast is secured to a mobile terrestrial platform.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.