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公开(公告)号:US20180072414A1
公开(公告)日:2018-03-15
申请号:US15698516
申请日:2017-09-07
Applicant: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
Inventor: Robert L. Cantrell , John P. Thompson , David C. Winkle , Michael D. Atchley , Donald R. High , Todd D. Mattingly , John J. O'Brien , John F. Simon
CPC classification number: B64C39/024 , B64C3/42 , B64C3/56 , B64C33/02 , B64C2201/021 , B64C2201/022 , B64C2201/025 , B64C2201/027 , B64C2201/102 , B64C2201/108 , B64C2201/127 , B64C2201/128 , B64C2201/14 , B64C2201/162
Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided herein for unmanned flight optimization. A system for unmanned flight comprises a set of motors configured to provide locomotion to an unmanned aerial vehicle, a set of wings coupled to a body of the unmanned aerial vehicle via an actuator and configured to move relative to the body of the unmanned aerial vehicle, a sensor system on the unmanned aerial vehicle, and a control circuit. The control circuit being configured to: retrieve a task profile for a task assigned to the unmanned aerial vehicle, cause the set of motors to lift the unmanned aerial vehicle, detect condition parameters based on the sensor system, determine a position for the set of wings based on the task profile and the condition parameters, and cause the actuator to move the set of wings to the wing position while the unmanned aerial vehicle is in flight.
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公开(公告)号:US09852644B2
公开(公告)日:2017-12-26
申请号:US15193033
申请日:2016-06-25
Applicant: Bee Robotics Corporation
Inventor: Vladimir Salnikov , Anatoly Filin , Harm Burema
IPC: G08G5/00 , A01B79/00 , A01C21/00 , A01C7/00 , A01M9/00 , B64B1/40 , B64C39/02 , B64D1/16 , G05D1/00 , G08G5/04 , A01B79/02 , A01C7/04 , G05D1/10
CPC classification number: G08G5/0043 , A01B79/005 , A01B79/02 , A01C7/04 , A01C21/00 , B64B1/40 , B64B2201/00 , B64C39/024 , B64C2201/022 , B64C2201/027 , B64C2201/042 , B64C2201/101 , B64C2201/108 , B64C2201/12 , B64C2201/126 , B64C2201/141 , B64C2201/145 , B64C2201/146 , B64D1/00 , B64D1/16 , G05D1/104 , G08G5/04 , Y10S901/01
Abstract: Modern farming is currently being done by powerful ground equipment or aircraft that weigh several tons and treat uniformly tens of hectares per hour. Automated farming can use small, agile, lightweight, energy-efficient automated robotic equipment that flies to do the same job, even able to farm on a plant-by-plant basis, allowing for new ways of farming. A hybrid airship-drone has both passive lift provided by a gas balloon and active lift provided by propellers. A hybrid airship-drone may be cheaper, more stable in flight, and require less maintenance than other aerial vehicles such as quadrocopters. However, hybrid airship-drones may also be larger in size and have more inertia that needs to be overcome for starting, stopping and turning.
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公开(公告)号:US09849962B2
公开(公告)日:2017-12-26
申请号:US15480582
申请日:2017-04-06
Applicant: X Development LLC
Inventor: Daniel Ratner
CPC classification number: B64B1/62 , B64B1/40 , B64B1/58 , B64C2201/022 , B64C2201/122
Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to filling and lifting high altitude balloons. For instance, one example system for lifting and filling a balloon having a balloon envelope includes an apparatus for use with the balloon envelope. The apparatus includes a load line, a fill tube having a hollow portion nested within the load line and a termination member attached to the fill tube and load line. The load line is configured to lift the balloon envelope during inflation. The fill tube extends through the load line and is configured to allow lift gas to pass through the hollow portion. The termination member is configured to mate with an opening in the balloon envelope so that lift gas can pass through the hollow portion of the fill tube and into the opening in the balloon envelope.
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公开(公告)号:US20170313420A1
公开(公告)日:2017-11-02
申请号:US15528440
申请日:2015-11-19
Applicant: Spray Ship Corporation
Inventor: Terry Anderson , Robert S. Cornelius , Patrick D. O'Malley , Isaac Braun
IPC: B64D1/18 , B64B1/24 , B64D27/24 , B64D31/06 , B64F1/00 , A01M7/00 , A01M21/04 , G01C15/00 , G01S13/46 , B64C39/02 , B64D27/02
CPC classification number: B64D1/18 , A01M7/00 , A01M7/0089 , A01M21/00 , A01M21/043 , B64B1/24 , B64C39/024 , B64C2201/022 , B64C2201/042 , B64C2201/141 , B64C2201/208 , B64D27/24 , B64D31/06 , B64D2027/026 , B64F1/00 , G01C15/00 , G01S13/46
Abstract: An airship and method of providing thrust to an airship are shown. Examples include a number of turbine thrusters coupled to a number of electric motor/generators that supplement thrust from the turbine thrusters. Systems and methods are described that include surveying an agricultural area, and spraying an amount of an agricultural supply on only selected portion of the agricultural area.
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公开(公告)号:US09800091B2
公开(公告)日:2017-10-24
申请号:US14124993
申请日:2012-06-09
Applicant: Thomas J. Nugent, Jr. , David Bashford , Jordin T. Kare
Inventor: Thomas J. Nugent, Jr. , David Bashford , Jordin T. Kare
CPC classification number: H02J50/30 , B64B1/50 , B64C39/022 , B64C39/024 , B64C2201/021 , B64C2201/022 , B64C2201/027 , B64C2201/042 , B64C2201/06 , B64C2201/148 , B64F3/00 , B64F3/02 , H02J7/025 , H02J17/00 , H02J50/40 , H04B10/807
Abstract: An aerial platform receives power in the form of light, for example laser light, transmitted via an optical fiber from a remote optical power source. The platform comprises a receiver which converts at least a portion of the light to a different form of power, for example electric power. The platform also comprises a propulsion element which consumes the different form of power to generate propulsive thrust. Supplying power to the aerial platform from a remote source enables the platform to remain aloft longer than a battery or fuel tank carried by the platform would allow. Transmitting the power in the form of light is preferable in many cases to transmitting electric power, because electrical conductors are generally heavier than optical fibers, and are hazardous in the presence of lightning or a high-voltage power line.
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公开(公告)号:US20170205536A1
公开(公告)日:2017-07-20
申请号:US15326764
申请日:2015-07-17
Applicant: ALTEC S.P.A.
Inventor: Ivano MUSSO
CPC classification number: G01W1/08 , B63B35/00 , B64C2201/022 , B64C2201/125 , B64C2201/127 , B64D1/12 , B64D47/08 , G01C11/02 , G01S13/953 , G01S13/956 , G03B15/006 , G03B17/08 , G03B17/561 , G05D1/0094 , H04N5/2252 , H04N5/23238 , H04N7/18
Abstract: Platform (100; 200, 200′, 200″) configured to acquire images and/or radio signals and to be carried by lightweight aviation aircrafts, characterised in that it comprises housing means (1, 3; 22, 201, 202, 203, 31) that houses one or more acquisition sensors selected from the group comprising or consisting of cameras (5; 51; 32) configured to acquire still and/or moving images and radio signal receivers (62; 34) configured to acquire radio signals, said housing means (1, 3; 22, 201, 202, 203, 31) being configured to be coupled to a light aviation aircraft (540), said one or more acquisition sensors (5; 51; 32; 62; 34) being connected to processing means (6; 23) configured to receive sensing data from a position and motion sensing unit (10; 230) coupled to said one or more acquisition sensors (5; 51; 32; 62; 34), said processing means (6; 23) being configured to control and/or program, on the basis of the received sensing data, each acquisition sensor (5; 51; 32; 62; 34) so as to enable the same to acquire images and/or radio signals when such acquisition sensor (5; 51; 32; 62; 34) is in a determined position and is subject to oscillations having a velocity that is not larger in absolute value than a maximum oscillation velocity value, whereby a rate of variation of an actual aiming of such acquisition sensor (5; 51; 32; 62; 34) is not larger in absolute value than a respective maximum value of rate of variation of offset with respect to an ideal aiming at a target, so as to ensure focusing of such acquisition sensor (5; 51; 32; 62; 34) on an aimed area.
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公开(公告)号:US09660718B2
公开(公告)日:2017-05-23
申请号:US15260049
申请日:2016-09-08
Applicant: UBIQOMM LLC
Inventor: Ahmad Jalali , Viktor Filiba
CPC classification number: H04B7/18504 , B64C39/024 , B64C2201/022 , B64C2201/122 , H04W16/28 , H04W24/10 , H04W64/006 , H04W84/005
Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Network access (for example, to the Internet) may be provided by detecting a UAV and fixing one or more beams from one or more ground terminals to the UAV. In one embodiment, the detection of a UAV includes forming and pointing beams from a ground terminal and ground gateways toward the UAV. The ground terminal may be configured to autonomously steer its antenna beam during initial installation to detect the reference signal from a UAV. In one variant, the ground terminals are steered to more finely track the position of the UAV based on a signal quality metric such as received signal strength and the UAV real-time position location coordinates. In one embodiment, the ground terminal antenna is initially manually pointed toward the UAV, and thereafter allowed to automatically steer to track the position of the UAV. In another embodiment the UAV antenna is steered toward a ground terminal using signal quality received from the ground terminal and real-time position coordinates and orientation of the UAV.
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公开(公告)号:US20170137104A1
公开(公告)日:2017-05-18
申请号:US15322008
申请日:2016-06-15
Applicant: Kohei NAKAMURA
Inventor: Kohei NAKAMURA
CPC classification number: B64B1/30 , B64B1/58 , B64C25/06 , B64C27/08 , B64C39/02 , B64C39/024 , B64C2201/022 , B64C2201/027 , B64C2201/101 , B64C2201/108 , B64C2201/127
Abstract: Provided is a buoyant aerial vehicle which can secure high safety by reducing the risk of crashing, and which can facilitate control of movement by suppressing the influence of wind and exhibit high mobility capability. The buoyant aerial vehicle is configured by including: a buoyant vehicle body in which gas having a specific gravity smaller than air is hermetically filled; a vertical propulsion propeller which provides vertical propulsive force to the buoyant vehicle body; and a horizontal propulsion propeller which provides horizontal propulsive force to the buoyant vehicle body, and is configured such that the buoyant vehicle body has horizontal wind passages formed in at least two directions, and has outer peripheral edges each formed into an acute angle in side view.
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公开(公告)号:US20170083019A1
公开(公告)日:2017-03-23
申请号:US15366020
申请日:2016-12-01
Applicant: SPACE DATA CORPORATION
Inventor: Gerald M. KNOBLACH , Eric A. FRISCHE , Bruce Alan BARKLEY
CPC classification number: G05D1/0055 , B64B1/40 , B64B1/44 , B64B1/46 , B64B1/62 , B64B1/64 , B64B1/70 , B64C39/024 , B64C2201/022 , B64C2201/125 , B64C2201/145 , G01S5/02 , G07C5/0808 , H04B7/18502 , H04B7/18504 , H04B7/18576 , H04W4/023 , H04W4/027
Abstract: Innovative new systems and method of operating the systems, wherein the system comprises an airborne platform comprising an unmanned balloon; a payload that is separate from the unmanned balloon; a transceiver; first and second flight termination devices; at least two separate power sources for the first and second flight termination devices; a sensor; a processor; a pump; a valve; and a tether that when broken separates the unmanned balloon and the payload, are disclosed herein.
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公开(公告)号:US20170057607A1
公开(公告)日:2017-03-02
申请号:US15351438
申请日:2016-11-14
Applicant: SPACE DATA CORPORATION
Inventor: Gerald M. KNOBLACH , Eric A. FRISCHE , Bruce Alan BARKLEY
CPC classification number: B64B1/40 , B64B1/44 , B64B1/62 , B64B1/64 , B64B1/70 , B64C2201/022 , G01S19/24 , G01S19/39 , G01S19/42 , G05D1/042 , H04B7/18502 , H04B7/18504 , H04B7/18576 , H04W4/023 , H04W4/027
Abstract: Innovative new systems and method of operating the systems, wherein the system comprises an airborne platform comprising an unmanned balloon; a payload that is separate from the unmanned balloon; a transceiver; first and second flight termination devices; at least two separate power sources for the first and second flight termination devices; a sensor; a processor; a pump; a valve; and a tether that when broken separates the unmanned balloon and the payload, are disclosed herein.
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