PRIMARY ASSET ESCORT THROUGH THREATENED AIRSPACE BY AN AUTONOMOUS AERIAL VEHICLE TEAM

    公开(公告)号:US20230280768A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-09-07

    申请号:US18092535

    申请日:2023-01-03

    IPC分类号: G05D1/10 B64U20/80

    摘要: A system and method for formation flying includes a primary asset accompanied by a plurality of secondary assets. The secondary assets fly around the primary asset in a predetermined formation to achieve a desired degree to range and scanning. The secondary assets are not mission critical such that if some or all are lost to attrition, the primary asset may continue the mission or abort with a high probability of survival. The primary asset may include a high value payload, either in terms of equipment expense or mission criticality. Furthermore, the secondary assets may autonomously reposition and reorient according to mission priorities or the loss of one or more of the secondary assets. The primary asset and secondary assets implement algorithms and software functions to allow the primary asset to navigate through airspace without being harmed by any known or yet to be known lethal threats.

    COLLABORATIVE SEARCH MAPPING FOR AUTONOMOUS MULTI-ASSET TEAMS

    公开(公告)号:US20230280767A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-09-07

    申请号:US17704715

    申请日:2022-03-25

    IPC分类号: G05D1/10 B64C39/02

    摘要: A system and method for autonomous vehicle (AV) team coordination are disclosed. An ownship AV generates ownship measurement data and a teammate AV generates teammate measurement data. A time slice of the ownship measurement data is matched to a time slice of the teammate measurement data based on a time slice index.
    An area of the environment is identified as a detected area or a non-detected area based on the measurement data associated with the matched time slices. An occupancy map is populated based on the identification of the area as the detected area or the non-detected area.

    FLIGHT FORMATION ASSISTANCE SYSTEM FOR AIRCRAFT

    公开(公告)号:US20230222921A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-07-13

    申请号:US17963236

    申请日:2022-10-11

    申请人: Airbus SAS

    IPC分类号: G08G5/00 G05D1/10

    CPC分类号: G08G5/0008 G05D1/104

    摘要: A formation flight assistance system is placed on board a follower aircraft to benefit from an upwards air flow induced by a wake vortex generated by a leader aircraft. The system determines a wake vortex effect experienced by the follower aircraft as being a difference between measurements taken by sensors and modelling in a wake vortex free environment. Using a recursive Bayesian filter, the system determines an estimated position of the wake vortex on the basis of information relating to the leader aircraft and a wake vortex model, and determines an estimation uncertainty, according to which a potential discomfort window is computed for the passengers of the follower aircraft. The system keeps the follower aircraft outside the potential discomfort window. Thus, the comfort of the passengers of the follower aircraft is provided, while benefiting from an upwards air flow induced by the wake vortex.