公开(公告)号：US12085962B2

公开(公告)日：2024-09-10

申请号：US18403503

申请日：2024-01-03

Applicant: Northwestern Polytechnical University

Inventor： Zhen Wang ,  Tao Zhang ,  Dengxiu Yu ,  Chao Gao ,  Xuelong Li

IPC: G05D1/695 ,  B64D47/06 ,  G05D1/249 ,  G05D1/46 ,  G05D109/25 ,  G05D111/10 ,  G06T7/73 ,  G08G5/00 ,  H04N23/695

CPC classification number: G05D1/695 ,  B64D47/06 ,  G05D1/249 ,  G05D1/46 ,  G06T7/74 ,  G08G5/0008 ,  G08G5/0021 ,  G08G5/0052 ,  G08G5/0069 ,  G08G5/0078 ,  H04N23/695 ,  B64D2203/00 ,  B64U2201/102 ,  G05D2109/254 ,  G05D2111/10 ,  G06T2207/10024 ,  G06T2207/10032

Abstract: Disclosed is a nighttime cooperative positioning method based on an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) group, falling within the technical field of aircraft navigation and positioning. According to the present disclosure, the cooperative visual positioning and the collision warning for UAVs are realized by means of light colors of the UAVs, respective two-dimensional turntable cameras and a communication topology network, without adding additional equipment and without relying on an external signal source, avoiding external interference. Compared with the positioning method in a conventional manner, in the present disclosure, the system is effectively simplified, and the cooperative positioning among the interiors of a UAV cluster can be realized relatively simply and at a low cost to maintain the formation of the UAV group.

公开(公告)号：US11981433B2

公开(公告)日：2024-05-14

申请号：US16708266

申请日：2019-12-09

Applicant: Liebherr-Werk Biberach GmbH

Inventor： Gebhard Schütz ,  Robert Bramberger ,  Tobias Scholz

IPC: B64D1/22 ,  B64C39/02 ,  B64U101/60 ,  G05D1/00

CPC classification number: B64D1/22 ,  B64C39/024 ,  G05D1/104 ,  B64U2101/60 ,  B64U2201/102

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a device for lifting a load, wherein at least one aerial drone carries at least a portion of the load. In order to lift a load, it is proposed to yoke together a plurality of aerial drones or at least one aerial drone and a lifting hook of a crane, and provide a common control system for the plurality of aerial drones or the at least one aerial drone and the lifting hook of the crane, in order not to have to control a plurality of aerial drones at the same time, or also an aerial drone in addition to the crane hook, using separate control means, in a “multi-handed” manner. In addition to the at least one aerial drone which carries at least a portion of the load, it is proposed, according to the invention, that the load should be connected to a further aerial drone and/or a lifting hook of a crane, and also carried and/or directed by the further aerial drone or the crane lifting hook in part, wherein the two aerial drones are controlled together, and/or the at least one aerial drone is controlled together with the crane, in a mutually coordinated manner, by means of a common controller for controlling flight and/or crane movements.

公开(公告)号：US11945582B2

公开(公告)日：2024-04-02

申请号：US17208565

申请日：2021-03-22

Applicant: SKYGRID, LLC

Inventor： Syed Mohammad Ali ,  Lowell L Duke ,  Zehra Akbar ,  Syed Mohammad Amir Husain ,  Taylor R. Schmidt

IPC: B64C39/02 ,  B64U101/00 ,  G08G5/00

CPC classification number: B64C39/024 ,  G08G5/0008 ,  G08G5/0013 ,  G08G5/0043 ,  G08G5/0069 ,  B64U2101/00 ,  B64U2201/102

Abstract: In a particular embodiment, coordinating an aerial search among unmanned aerial vehicles is disclosed that includes receiving, by a server in a UAV transportation ecosystem, search area data, accessing, by the server, UAV parameters for a type of UAV, determining, by the server in dependence upon the search area data and the UAV parameters, a number of UAVs needed to complete a coordinated aerial search of a search area within a time limit, and partitioning, by the server, the search area into a plurality of partitions, wherein the number of partitions is equal to the number of UAVs.

公开(公告)号：US11815914B2

公开(公告)日：2023-11-14

申请号：US17326288

申请日：2021-05-20

Applicant: Jonathan Ralph Burdick

Inventor： Jonathan Ralph Burdick

IPC: G05D1/04 ,  G05D1/10 ,  B64C39/02 ,  B64D27/24 ,  B64C27/68 ,  G08G5/04 ,  G08G5/00 ,  F41H13/00 ,  B64U30/20 ,  B64U50/19 ,  B64U101/00

CPC classification number: G05D1/104 ,  B64C27/68 ,  B64C39/024 ,  B64D27/24 ,  F41H13/0087 ,  G05D1/106 ,  G05D1/1064 ,  G08G5/0039 ,  G08G5/045 ,  B64U30/20 ,  B64U50/19 ,  B64U2101/00 ,  B64U2201/102

Abstract: A method for protection of inflight aircraft during approaching-to-landing and takeoff/climbout phases of flight against handheld laser attacks includes two different drone types: a skeining drone and a swarming drone. One or more skeining drones are deployed close to the aircraft and/or one or more swarming drones are deployed further from the aircraft and closer to the beam source. Prior to the aircraft's traversal of a determinable approach point, a plurality of swarming drones are pre-deployed in loitering mode or else launched, and are subsequently directed toward the reckoned source of a trained beam while skeining drones are pre-deployed in a patrol mode or else launched, and fly closer to the aircraft. The skein classically shields the cockpit by flying a controlled interference pattern roughly parallel to the aircraft flightpath while the swarm saturates one or more determined and dynamically redetermined regions athwart the beam source location.

公开(公告)号：US11744534B2

公开(公告)日：2023-09-05

申请号：US17449462

申请日：2021-09-30

Applicant: Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.

Inventor： Alexander Hans Vija ,  Michal Cachovan

IPC: A61B6/00 ,  A61B6/03 ,  G05D1/00 ,  B64C39/02 ,  B64U10/13 ,  B64U101/30

CPC classification number: A61B6/4405 ,  A61B6/03 ,  A61B6/4258 ,  A61B6/461 ,  A61B6/466 ,  A61B6/486 ,  B64C39/024 ,  G05D1/0094 ,  B64U10/13 ,  B64U2101/30 ,  B64U2201/102

Abstract: A detector used for tomography imaging is mobile, allowing the detector to move about an object (e.g., patient to be imaged). A swarm of such detectors, such as a swarm of drones with detectors, may be used for tomography imaging. The trajectory or trajectories of the mobile detectors may account for the pose and/or movement of the object being imaged. The trajectory or trajectories may be based, in part, on the sampling for desired tomography. An image of an internal region of the object is reconstructed from detected signals of the mobile detectors using tomography.

公开(公告)号：US12124279B2

公开(公告)日：2024-10-22

申请号：US16603816

申请日：2017-04-12

Applicant: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC

Inventor： David W. Paglieroni ,  N. Reginald Beer ,  David Chambers

IPC: G05D1/10 ,  B64C39/02 ,  G01C21/34 ,  G05D1/00 ,  G06Q10/047 ,  G08G5/00 ,  G06Q10/04

CPC classification number: G05D1/104 ,  G01C21/3446 ,  G01C21/3453 ,  G05D1/0027 ,  G05D1/1064 ,  G06Q10/047 ,  G08G5/0021 ,  B64U2201/10 ,  B64U2201/102

Abstract: A system for determining optimal paths without collision through a travel volume for a swarm of vehicles is disclosed. The system determines a travel path for the swarm leader vehicle using a minimal cost path derived from various measures of environmental cost for avoiding objects in traveling from leader location to target location. The system also determines, for each empty neighbor location of each follower vehicle, relational costs for follower vehicle travel relative to leader vehicle travel. The various measures of relational cost seek to maintain a prescribed positional relationship between each follower vehicle and the leader vehicle given the leader vehicle travel path. Based on various measures of environmental and relational cost, the system determines the best travel path for the each follower vehicle relative to the leader vehicle.

公开(公告)号：US20240273553A1

公开(公告)日：2024-08-15

申请号：US18635990

申请日：2024-04-15

Applicant: SZ DJI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.

Inventor： Ming GONG ,  Jin DAI ,  Hao CUI ,  Xiaodong WANG ,  Han HUANG ,  Jun WU ,  Wei FAN ,  Ning MA ,  Xinhua RONG ,  Xingsen LIN

IPC: G06Q30/018 ,  B64C39/02 ,  G05D1/226 ,  G06F8/65 ,  G06F16/29 ,  G06F21/31 ,  G06F21/44 ,  G06F21/62 ,  G08G5/00 ,  H04L9/40 ,  H04L67/00 ,  H04L67/12 ,  H04W4/021

CPC classification number: G06Q30/018 ,  B64C39/024 ,  G05D1/226 ,  G06F8/65 ,  G06F16/29 ,  G06F21/31 ,  G06F21/44 ,  G06F21/6227 ,  G08G5/0008 ,  G08G5/0013 ,  G08G5/0026 ,  G08G5/0034 ,  G08G5/0039 ,  G08G5/0043 ,  G08G5/0052 ,  G08G5/006 ,  G08G5/0069 ,  G08G5/0078 ,  G08G5/0082 ,  G08G5/0086 ,  G08G5/0091 ,  H04L63/101 ,  H04L67/12 ,  H04L67/34 ,  B64U2201/102 ,  B64U2201/20 ,  G06F2221/2117 ,  G08G5/0056 ,  H04W4/021

Abstract: A system for controlling a vehicle, including one or more communication modules and one or more processors operably coupled to the communication modules. The one or more processors are configured to individually or collectively: receive a geo-fence identifier associated with geo-fence information, where the geo-fence identifier uniquely identifies the geo-fence from other geo-fences; obtain one or more activity regulations for the vehicle based on the geo-fence identifier; and control operation of the vehicle according to the one or more activity regulations.

公开(公告)号：US11873090B2

公开(公告)日：2024-01-16

申请号：US17712872

申请日：2022-04-04

Applicant: PABLO AIR Co., Ltd. ,  PABLO AIR International, INC.

Inventor： Seung Han Lim ,  Youngjoon Kim ,  Dong Jin Lee

IPC: B64C39/02 ,  G05D1/10 ,  B64U10/13 ,  G08G5/00 ,  G06Q10/08 ,  G06Q10/083 ,  B64U101/60

CPC classification number: B64C39/024 ,  G05D1/104 ,  G05D1/106 ,  G06Q10/083 ,  G08G5/0008 ,  B64U10/13 ,  B64U2101/60 ,  B64U2201/102

Abstract: Provided is a method for delivering goods through an unmanned aerial vehicle group including a plurality of aircraft respectively connected to delivery target goods. The method comprises identifying, by a master aircraft of the unmanned aerial vehicle group, an actual load applied to each of the aircraft by the goods while the unmanned aerial vehicle group is flying to deliver the goods, and controlling the unmanned aerial vehicle group by the master aircraft to adjust the actual load applied to each of the aircraft.

公开(公告)号：US11853083B2

公开(公告)日：2023-12-26

申请号：US17517513

申请日：2021-11-02

Applicant: The Boeing Company

Inventor： Nathan D. Hiller

IPC: G05D1/10 ,  B64C39/02 ,  H04B7/185 ,  B64U20/10 ,  B64U50/34 ,  B64U10/13 ,  B64U101/20 ,  B64U101/00 ,  B64U101/15

CPC classification number: G05D1/104 ,  B64C39/024 ,  B64U20/10 ,  B64U50/34 ,  H04B7/185 ,  B64U10/13 ,  B64U2101/00 ,  B64U2101/15 ,  B64U2101/20 ,  B64U2201/102

Abstract: Methods, Systems, and Apparatus for coordinating drones to communicate with reduced signal to noise, harvest energy, or provide camouflage.

公开(公告)号：US11842647B2

公开(公告)日：2023-12-12

申请号：US17110830

申请日：2020-12-03

Applicant: PABLO AIR Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Hyeong Min Kim

IPC: G05D1/10 ,  G05D1/12 ,  G08G5/00 ,  B64C39/02 ,  B64U101/30

CPC classification number: G08G5/0043 ,  B64C39/024 ,  G05D1/104 ,  G05D1/12 ,  G08G5/0008 ,  G08G5/0013 ,  B64U2101/30 ,  B64U2201/102

Abstract: Provided is an unmanned moving vehicle for monitoring and a system including the same and, more particularly, to a method of controlling an unmanned moving vehicle whose communication with a master unmanned device is disconnected. To this end, the unmanned moving vehicle system for monitoring includes a master unmanned device performing communication with a ground control system located on the ground; and an unmanned moving vehicle performing communication with the master unmanned device, flying in formation around the master unmanned device, and calculating a distance to other unmanned moving vehicle flying in formation when communication with the master unmanned device is disconnected.