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US 2022/0363380 A1Published application
Suspended aerial vehicle system with thruster stabilization
AssigneeKyte Dynamics, Inc.
InventorIrfan-ur-rab Usman
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Abstract
A suspended aerial vehicle system includes an aerial vehicle with a thruster assembly and a supporting line attached to the aerial vehicle that is capable of supporting at least some of the weight of the aerial vehicle. The supporting line may have an adjustable length which when varied, and in coordination with variations in a thrust characteristic of the aerial vehicle, may change the position of the aerial vehicle. Other aspects are also described and claimed.
Claims1
A suspended aerial vehicle system, comprising:
- a mothership,
- an aerial vehicle physically connected to the mothership,
- a controller configured to coordinate a mothership thrust characteristic and an aerial vehicle thrust characteristic.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.