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Navigating a UAV with on-board navigation algorithms with flight depiction

  • US 7,107,148 B1
  • Filed: 10/23/2003
  • Issued: 09/12/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/23/2003
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method for navigating a UAV, the method comprising:

  • receiving in a remote control device a user'"'"'s selection of a GUI map pixel that represents a waypoint for UAV navigation, the pixel having a location on the GUI;

    mapping the pixel'"'"'s location on the GUI to Earth coordinates of the waypoint;

    transmitting the coordinates of the waypoint to the UAV;

    reading a starting position from a GPS receiver on the UAV;

    piloting the UAV, under control of a navigation computer on the UAV, from the starting position to the waypoint in accordance with a navigation algorithm; and

    while piloting the UAV from the starting position to the waypoint;

    reading from the GPS receiver a sequence of GPS data representing a flight path of the UAV; and

    depicting the flight of the UAV with 3D computer graphics, including a computer graphic display of a satellite image of the Earth, in dependence upon the GPS data.

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