Water Vehicles
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1. A float which comprises means for launching an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
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Abstract
Equipment and methods which combine the use of wave powered vehicles and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs or drones). A UAV can be launched from a wave-powered vehicle, observe another vessel and report the results of its observation to the wave-powered vehicle and the waves-powered vehicle can report the results of the observation to a remote location. The UAV can land on water and can then be recovered by the wave-powered vehicle.
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- 1. A float which comprises means for launching an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
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3. A wave-powered vehicle (WPV) which comprises means for recovering an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) which is floating in the water.
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4. A float which comprises means for recovering an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) which is floating in the water.
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5. A method, performed by a wave-powered vehicle (WPV) having communications equipment, of monitoring vessels which are floating in water, the method comprising:
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receiving communications from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) on the communications equipment of the WPV; and transmitting corresponding communications to a receiving station at a remote location.
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7. An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) which, when it lands on water, sinks below the surface of water except for a recovery means which remains above the surface of the water.
- 8. An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) which can be converted between (1) a collapsed form in which it can be stowed in a tube and (2) an unfolded form which can operate as a UAV and which the UAV adopts automatically when it is released from the tube.
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