METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONFIGURABLE AND SCALABLE UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES AND SYSTEMS

摘要

An unmanned aircraft system (UAS) making use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for more than one task. The inventors discovered that an improved UAS could be provided by combining one or more of these three elements: (1) hot-swappable modular kits (e.g., a plurality of components useful in UAVs to perform particular user-selectable tasks); (2) an interconnection mechanism for each component with identification protocols that provides both a physical and a data connection; and (3) an intelligent system that interprets the identification protocols and determines the configuration for a selected task, error checking, airworthiness, and calibration. The system and associated methods for the task based drone configuration and verification reduces the possibility of task failure by an operator.

主权项

1. An unmanned aircraft system (UAS), comprising:
an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV); a processor running a UAS design module; a user input device receiving user input indicating a selected task; a display device operated by the processor to display an identifier for a UAS module determined by the UAS design module for performing the selected task; a connector associated with the UAS module; and the UAS module communicatively coupled to the UAV via the connector.