Protocol design for unmanned aerial system (UAS) traffic management (UTM)

US11961405B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc. · FR

Inventors

• Jun Li · Palo Alto, US
• Nagi Mahalingam · San Diego, US
• Anantharaman Balasubramanian · San Diego, US
• Ravikumar V. Pragada · Collegeville, US
• Michel Roy · Candiac, CA

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 16, 2018
• Grant date: Apr 16, 2024
• Expiry date: Apr 12, 2040

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G08G5/80
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An unmanned aerial system (UAS) may execute a mission planned by a UAS traffic management (UTM) system. The UAS may receive a mission planning response message from the UTM that includes a mission route for the UAS to navigate and a configuration of one or more trigger events. The mission route may be made up of a sequence of waypoints in an airspace. Each of the waypoints may be configured with a dynamic path conforming profile (PCP) a dynamic required navigation performance (RNP) value. The UAS may monitor at least the RNP value in one or more time intervals to determine if a trigger event occurs. The UAS may transmit a path conformance status report to the UTM upon determining that a trigger event of the one or more trigger events occurred. The path conformance status report may indicate conformance to one or more parameters specified in the PCP.