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Unmanned aircraft systems and methods of assembly

  • US 10,467,376 B2
  • Filed: 03/23/2017
  • Issued: 11/05/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/25/2016
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of designing an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) based on an intended task, comprising:

  • by a design control circuit;

    obtaining a first set of multiple task parameters specified by a first customer and corresponding to a requested first task that the first customer is requesting a UAS be designed to perform;

    identifying, from a UAS component database storing UAS component identifiers and corresponding UAS attributes for each of numerous UAS components, at least one primary type of UAS component to be included in the UAS being designed based on a correlation between the task parameters and the UAS component attributes of the UAS components;

    identifying, from the UAS component database, a first set of one or more secondary types of UAS components to be included in the designed UAS to support the at least one primary type of UAS component while implementing the first task; and

    providing a design plan of the designed UAS designed to be utilized to implement the first task, wherein the design plan specifies at least a first primary UAS component that corresponds to the primary type of UAS component, and secondary UAS components that each correspond to at least one of the secondary types of UAS components, wherein the first primary UAS component and the secondary UAS components are configured to cooperate in assembling the designed UAS intended to implement the first task;

    controlling, through a transport controller of the first primary UAS component, a transport system of the first primary UAS component to autonomously cause the first primary UAS component to move toward one of the secondary UAS components and couple with the one of the secondary UAS components; and

    wherein the providing the design plan comprises accessing the UAS component database, extracting from the UAS component database the UAS component attributes of each of the secondary UAS components and the UAS component attributes of the first primary UAS component, and confirming, in accordance with the UAS component attributes accessed from the UAS component database, that each of the secondary UAS components are physically and electrically configured to cooperate with at least one of the first primary UAS component and another one of the secondary UAS components.

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