Aircraft emergency broadcast system
AssigneeSkyway Technologies Corp.
InventorsClifford FERNANDEZ, Derrick Harry Lewis, Brooke Webster, Noah Reef
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Abstract
An emergency broadcast mechanism that can quickly and efficiently alert aircraft that surround an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) of an emergency event or situation at the UAV is described. For example, a UAV flying above other UAVs may experience a distress situation, and immediately or subsequently broadcast a distress signal to the other UAVs after an initial freefall from its original altitude, alerting the other UAVs to the distress situation. The other UAVs may modify their operations to avoid colliding with the falling UAV, such as by adjusting their flight trajectories or otherwise performing an action to avoid a possible collision with the falling UAV.
Claims20
A system associated with an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), the system comprising:
- a trigger module that detects an abnormal movement of the UAV;
- and
- a signal module that transmits a signal in response to the detected abnormal movement of the UAV.
A method performed by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), the method comprising:
- receiving a distress signal from another UAV located above the UAV;
- and
- automatically modifying a current trajectory based on the received distress signal.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium whose contents, when executed by a computing system of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), cause the computing system to perform a method, the method comprising:
- detecting an abnormal movement of the UAV;
- and
- broadcasting a signal in response to the detected abnormal movement of the UAV.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.