Safety System for Operation of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
AssigneeAeroVironment, Inc.
InventorsThaddeus Benjamin Matuszeski, William Arden Lott, Derek Lisoski
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Abstract
Systems, devices, and methods for a safety system including: selecting an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) command on a controller, the controller comprising a first processor with addressable memory; presenting a first activator and a second activator on a display of the controller for the selected UAV command, wherein the second activator is a slider; and sending the UAV command to a UAV if the first activator and the second activator are selected, the UAV comprising a second processor with addressable memory.
Claims21
A system for operation of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) comprising:
- a controller having a first processor and a first addressable memory, wherein the controller is configured to:
- present a first activator and a second activator on a display of the controller, wherein the first activator is presented as a first user interface (UI) element comprising a button and the second activator is presented as a second UI element comprising a slider;
- select the first activator and the second activator, wherein the selection of the second activator is subsequent to the selection of the first activator;
- and
- transmit a UAV command to control the UAV via a transmitter of the controller based on the selection of the first activator and the second activator.
A method for operation of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) comprising:
- presenting a first activator and a second activator on a display of a controller, the controller comprising a first processor with a first addressable memory, wherein the first activator is presented as a first user interface (UI) element comprising a button, and wherein the second activator is presented as a second UI element comprising a slider;
- selecting the first activator and the second activator, wherein the selection of the second activator is subsequent to the selection of the first activator;
- and
- transmitting a UAV command to control the UAV via a transmitter of the controller based on the selection of the first activator and the second activator at least one of:
- simultaneously and sequentially with the second activator.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.