Airborne relays in cooperative-MIMO systems
First Claim
1. An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), comprisinga situational awareness system coupled to at least one onboard sensor and configured to determine at least one relative spatial location of at least one other UAV;
- a cooperative Radio Access Network (RAN) signal processor configured to process RAN signals in a UAV-User Equipment (UE) channel cooperatively with at least one other UAV and produce RAN performance criteria; and
a flight controller coupled to the situational awareness system and the cooperative RAN signal processor, and configured to employ autonomous navigation control of the UAV'"'"'s flight based at least on the at least one relative spatial location and the RAN performance criteria operating within predetermined boundaries of navigation criteria.
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Abstract
An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) comprises a situational awareness system coupled to at least one onboard sensor and senses the location of other UAVs. A cooperative Radio Access Network (RAN)-signal processor is configured to process RAN signals cooperatively with at least one other UAV to increase the rank of the RAN channel and produce RAN performance criteria. A flight controller provides autonomous navigation control of the UAV'"'"'s flight based on the relative spatial locations of other UAVs and the RAN performance criteria, which operates within predetermined boundaries of navigation criteria. The UAV can employ mitigation tactics against one or more UEs identified as a threat and may coordinate other UAVs to conduct such mitigations.
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20 Claims
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1. An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), comprising
a situational awareness system coupled to at least one onboard sensor and configured to determine at least one relative spatial location of at least one other UAV; -
a cooperative Radio Access Network (RAN) signal processor configured to process RAN signals in a UAV-User Equipment (UE) channel cooperatively with at least one other UAV and produce RAN performance criteria; and a flight controller coupled to the situational awareness system and the cooperative RAN signal processor, and configured to employ autonomous navigation control of the UAV'"'"'s flight based at least on the at least one relative spatial location and the RAN performance criteria operating within predetermined boundaries of navigation criteria. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A system for controlling flight of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), comprising:
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a plurality of UAVs, each including a processor executing a local flight control module and a cooperative Radio Access Network (RAN) signal processing module, and further including memory accessible by the processor for use by the local flight control module; wherein, during flight operations, each local flight control module autonomously controls its UAV'"'"'s flight based at least partially on relative spatial location of at least one other of the plurality of UAVs, navigation criteria stored in the memory, and RAN performance criteria operating within boundaries of the navigation criteria, wherein the RAN performance criteria is derived from RAN channel measurements produced by the cooperative RAN signal processing module in each of the plurality of UAVs. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A method for controlling an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) operating in a cluster of UAVs, comprising
employing onboard sensors to determine a relative spatial location with respect to at least one other UAV; -
processing Radio Access Network (RAN) signals in a UAV-User Equipment (UE) channel cooperatively with at least one other UAV and produce RAN performance criteria; employing inter-UAV communications to enable the cluster of UAVs to communicate with each other; and employing autonomous navigation control to control the UAV'"'"'s flight based at least partially on the relative spatial location, navigation criteria boundaries, and the RAN performance criteria operating within predetermined boundaries of the navigation criteria boundaries. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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