Safe termination of UAV
US8755950B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Aug 6, 2009 |
| Grant date | Jun 17, 2014 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 17, 2031 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG05D1/0022
- WIPO fieldControl
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A termination system that transmits on a cyclic basis, from a control station to an unmanned vehicle, pairs of mutually dependent code and counter values whose dependency is determined by a termination algorithm. The vehicle has knowledge of the algorithm and can hence validate a received code/counter pair using the same algorithm. If the received code/counter pair is invalid, the vehicle can decide to self-terminate. The control station includes a termination actuator that allows the vehicle to be remotely terminated by invalidating, when actuated by an operator, the code/counter pairs that are transmitted to the vehicle.
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