Unmanned vehicle route management system
AssigneeRaytheon Company
InventorsMatthew R. Yeager, Christopher J. Graham, John A. Wheeler
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Abstract
According to one embodiment, a route management system for an unmanned vehicle includes a network node in communication with an unmanned vehicle control system and an unmanned vehicle. The network node is operable to transmit a number of initial waypoints to the unmanned vehicle, transmit one or more in-flight waypoints to the unmanned vehicle after the unmanned vehicle has arrived at a corresponding one or more of the initial waypoints, and replace the one or more of the initial waypoints with the one or more in-flight waypoints in the unmanned vehicle such that the total quantity waypoints stored in the unmanned vehicle does not exceed a specified quantity.
Claims20
A route management system comprising:
- a vehicle control system including a Standardization Agreement 4586 compliant interface configured to communicate a route using a first quantity of waypoints;
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- a vehicle specific module in communication with the vehicle control system and an unmanned vehicle including a joint architecture for unmanned systems compliant interface that is configured to interpret a specified quantity of waypoints to control travel of the unmanned vehicle, wherein the specified quantity of waypoints is smaller than the first quantity of waypoints, the vehicle specific module operable to:
- transmit, according to a first sequence, a plurality of initial waypoints of the first quantity of waypoints to the unmanned vehicle, the plurality of initial waypoints comprising a portion of the route;
- transmit, according to a second sequence following the first sequence, one or more in-flight waypoints of the first quantity of waypoints to the unmanned vehicle after the unmanned vehicle has arrived at one or more of the plurality of initial waypoints;
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- replace, according to the first sequence, one or more of the plurality of initial waypoints with the one or more in-flight waypoints in the unmanned vehicle,
- wherein a quantity of the plurality of initial waypoints and the one or more in-flight waypoints stored in the unmanned vehicle each do not exceed the specified quantity.
A route management system comprising:
- a network node in communication with an unmanned vehicle control system and an unmanned vehicle that includes an interface that is configured to interpret a specified quantity of waypoints to control travel along a route, the network node being operable to:
- receive a first quantity of waypoints that is larger than the specified quantity of waypoints;
- transmit, according to a first sequence, a plurality of initial waypoints of the first quantity of waypoints to the unmanned vehicle, the plurality of initial waypoints comprising a portion of a route by which the unmanned vehicle travels;
- transmit, according to a second sequence following the first sequence, one or more in-flight waypoints of the first quantity of waypoints to the unmanned vehicle after the unmanned vehicle has arrived at one or more of the plurality of initial waypoints;
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- replace, according to the first sequence, one or more of the plurality of initial waypoints with the one or more in-flight waypoints in the unmanned vehicle,
- wherein the quantity of the plurality of initial waypoints and the one or more in-flight waypoints stored in the unmanned vehicle each do not exceed the specified quantity.
A method comprising:
- receiving a first quantity of waypoints that is larger than a specified quantity of waypoints;
- transmitting, according to a first sequence, a plurality of initial waypoints of the first quantity of waypoints to an unmanned vehicle, the plurality of initial waypoints comprising a portion of a route by which the unmanned vehicle travels;
- transmitting, according to a second sequence following the first sequence, one or more in-flight waypoints of the first quantity of waypoints to the unmanned vehicle after the unmanned vehicle has arrived at one or more of the plurality of initial waypoints;
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- replacing, according to the first sequence, the one or more of the plurality of initial waypoints from the unmanned vehicle with the one or more in-flight waypoints,
- wherein the quantity of waypoints stored in the unmanned vehicle does not exceed the specified quantity at a time.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.