SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT OF INTELLIGENT UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES
First Claim
1. A drone traffic management system comprising a computer comprising:
- memory means for storingorigin coordinates indicating an origin location of a drone,destination coordinates indicating a destination of the drone, andtraffic management factors located between the origin location of the drone and the destination of the drone; and
processing means for controlling the flight of a drone bycalculating a flight path for the drone to fly automatically from the origin location to the destination location without manual intervention,sending the flight path to the drone,receiving location data of the drone as it travels from the origin location to the destination,re-calculating the flight path of the drone as a function of the traffic management factors and the location data of the drone, andsending the re-calculated flight path to the drone.
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Abstract
A drone traffic management system comprising a computer comprising memory means for storing origin coordinates indicating an origin location of a drone, destination coordinates indicating a destination of the drone, and traffic management factors located between the origin location of the drone and the destination of the drone; and processing means for controlling the flight of a drone. This is accomplished by calculating a flight path for the drone to fly automatically from the origin location to the destination location without manual intervention, sending the flight path to the drone, receiving location data of the drone as it travels from the origin location to the destination, re-calculating the flight path of the drone as a function of the traffic management factors and the location data of the drone, and sending the re-calculated flight path to the drone.
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11 Claims
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1. A drone traffic management system comprising a computer comprising:
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memory means for storing origin coordinates indicating an origin location of a drone, destination coordinates indicating a destination of the drone, and traffic management factors located between the origin location of the drone and the destination of the drone; and processing means for controlling the flight of a drone by calculating a flight path for the drone to fly automatically from the origin location to the destination location without manual intervention, sending the flight path to the drone, receiving location data of the drone as it travels from the origin location to the destination, re-calculating the flight path of the drone as a function of the traffic management factors and the location data of the drone, and sending the re-calculated flight path to the drone. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. The drone traffic management system wherein one of the plurality of drones is a roving sector drone, and wherein the computer is located onboard the roving sector drone.
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8. A method of managing drone traffic comprising:
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storing in memory origin coordinates indicating an origin location of a drone, destination coordinates indicating a destination of the drone, and traffic management factors located between the origin location of the drone and the destination of the drone; and controlling the flight of a drone by calculating a flight path for the drone to fly automatically from the origin location to the destination location without manual intervention, sending the flight path to the drone, receiving location data of the drone as it travels from the origin location to the destination, re-calculating the flight path of the drone as a function of the traffic management factors and the location data of the drone, and sending the re-calculated flight path to the drone. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11)
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