Unmanned aircraft systems and methods of assembly
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1. A method of designing an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) based on an intended task, comprising:
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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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Some embodiments provide a system to design an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) based on an intended task, comprising: UAS component database and a design control circuit configured to: obtain a first set of multiple task parameters corresponding to a requested task that the UAS is being designed to perform; identify at least one primary type of UAS component to be included in the UAS being designed; identify a first set of one or more secondary types of UAS components to support the primary type of UAS component while implementing the task; and provide a design plan of the designed UAS designed to be utilized to implement the task.
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1. A method of designing an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) based on an intended task, comprising:
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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. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A system to design an unmanned aircraft system based on an intended task, comprising:
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an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) component database storing UAS component identifiers and corresponding UAS attributes for each of numerous UAS components; and a design control circuit coupled with the UAS component database and configured to; obtain 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; identify, from the UAS component database, 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; identify, 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 provide 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; wherein the first primary UAS component comprises a transport controller and a transport system communicatively coupled with the transport controller, wherein the transport controller is configured to execute one or more computer programs to control the transport system 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 design control circuit in identifying, from the UAS component database, the first set of one or more secondary types of UAS components is configured to access the UAS component database, extract 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 confirm, 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. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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