US 9,282,144 B2Granted

Unmanned vehicle selective data transfer system and method thereof

AssigneeBAE SYSTEMS plc

InventorsAndrew Christopher Tebay, Simon Graham Stockton

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Abstract

A data transfer system is disclosed for an unmanned vehicle on a mission. The data transfer system can include a first sensor associated with the unmanned vehicle for collecting a first data set, and a second sensor associated with the unmanned vehicle and for collecting a second data set, wherein the second data set is associated with the first data set by a predetermined association. A transceiver can transmit data from the unmanned vehicle to a remote data storage system. A mass data storage computer located on the unmanned vehicle can store the first and second data sets based on the predetermined association, and execute requests from the remote data storage system to transmit the first data set from the unmanned vehicle to the remote data storage system, and to transmit selected ones of the second data set from the unmanned vehicle to the remote data storage system.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A data transfer system for an unmanned vehicle on a mission, the data transfer system comprising:

a first sensor on the unmanned vehicle and for collecting a first data set;
a second sensor on the unmanned vehicle and for collecting a second data set, wherein the second data set is associated with the first data set by a predetermined association;
a transceiver for transmitting data from the unmanned vehicle to a remote data storage system;
and
a mass data storage computer located on the unmanned vehicle for storing the first and second data sets based on the predetermined association;
wherein the mass data storage computer is configured to receive and execute requests from the remote data storage system to transmit the first data set from the unmanned vehicle to the remote data storage system;
wherein the mass data storage computer is configured to receive and execute requests from said remote data storage system to transmit only selected ones of the second data set from the unmanned vehicle to the remote data storage system;
and
wherein the mass data storage computer is configured to be removably connectable to the unmanned vehicle such that at and end of the mission the mass data storage computer can be removed from the unmanned vehicle and connected to the remote data storage device through a data cradle to download any data which has not already been transmitted;
whereby a time to prepare the unmanned vehicle for a next mission is reduced.

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Facts

Application: 13/979,499Filed 10 Jan 2012
Priority: EP 1127501114 Jan 2011
Published: US 2013/0318214 A128 Nov 2013
Granted: 8 Mar 2016
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification17 codes

H04L 67/10
Protocols: in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network
G06F 3/0611
Improving I/O performance: in relation to response time
G06F 3/0655
Making use of a particular technique: vertical data movement, i.e. input-output transfer; data movement between one or more hosts and one or more…
G06F 3/067
Adopting a particular infrastructure: distributed or networked storage systems, e.g. storage area networks [SAN], network attached storage [NAS]