On-Rail UAV Calibration
AssigneeWing Aviation LLC
InventorsAndré Peter Prager, Dinuka Malin Wickramasinghe Abeywardena, Brandon Lane Jones, James Ryan Burgess
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Abstract
A method includes navigating, by a UAV, onto a first track of a UAV holding structure, the first track having a length sufficient to hold one or more UAVs, wherein the first track includes a calibration section. The method additionally includes subsequently performing, by the UAV, a calibration operation while the UAV is constrained by the calibration section of the first track. Based on the calibration operation, the method additionally includes subsequently taking off, by the UAV, from a takeoff section of the first track.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- navigating, by a UAV, onto a first track of a UAV holding structure, the first track having a length sufficient to hold one or more UAVs, wherein the first track includes a calibration section;
- subsequently performing, by the UAV, a calibration operation while the UAV is constrained by the calibration section of the first track;
- and
- based on the calibration operation, subsequently taking off, by the UAV, from a takeoff section of the first track.
A holding system for uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs), comprising:
- a landing pad including a support surface for receiving a UAV;
- a first track extending from the landing pad, the first track having a length sufficient to hold one or more UAVs, the first track comprising a calibration section;
- and
- at least one calibration component positioned proximate the calibration section and configured to physically interact with one or more components of the UAV as the UAV passes through the calibration section of the first track.
A UAV configured to:
- navigate onto a first track of a UAV holding structure, the first track having a length sufficient to hold one or more UAVs, wherein the first track includes a calibration section;
- subsequently perform a calibration operation while the UAV is constrained by the calibration section of the first track;
- and
- based on the calibration operation, subsequently take off from a takeoff section of the first track.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.